Userform BringToFront

[NateGreen]

Issue: Bring to front userform when Excel is invisible

Background info:
I am launching a vbs script from AutoCAD which, in turn, opens a particular excel workbook and initiate a macro. This workbook is opened invisibly (i.e. "xlApp.Visible = False", "Application.Visible = False"), so that the end user is can only view the userforms created by the macro. The problem that I'm running into is that the userforms are being displayed behind AutoCAD (or any other active window). I want to force these forms to appear on top of other windows.

 

[BrianB]

Yhis can be done using 2 API calls - one to get the window handle (which changes each time it is opened) and the other to bring the window to the top.

'==============================================================
'- CODE TO BRING USERFORM WINDOWTO THE TOP
'==============================================================
Private Declare Function FindWindow Lib "user32" Alias "FindWindowA" (ByVal lpClassName As String, ByVal lpWindowName As String) As Long
Private Declare Function BringWindowToTop Lib "user32" (ByVal Hwnd As Long) As Long
Dim Hwnd As Long
'-------------------------------------------------------------

Private Sub UserForm_Initialize()
    Hwnd = FindWindow("ThunderDFrame", Me.Caption)
    BringWindowToTop (Hwnd)
End Sub

 

[NateGreen]

Excellent, thank you Brian