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Im developing an application and use FlashWindowEx to flash the update window however it always manages to steal focus from full screen applications like games and such.

This is not what i want and is very annoying. Is there any way to work out whats causing it to steal focus (tried commenting out FlashWindowEx but it still did) or a way to tell it not to steal focus.

This happens on all versions of windows (including 7) and the game is launched seperatly to the application.

Lodle
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  • The article "[Get user attention without stealing focus](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4889181/get-user-attention-without-stealing-focus)" might be relevant. – j.w.r Jun 20 '11 at 01:35
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    Your application is getting **more** attention and you don't want that because it's *bothering* the user? Wow, maybe there's hope for us, yet. – aib Jun 20 '11 at 03:03

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Check out the WS_EX_NOACTIVATE window style perhaps?

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