I''ve been writing a small media player.. just for myself to use (although I suppose I could put it up on my portfolio site when I''m done) It runs pretty much perfect now (gonna change the gui, add some visual effects for sound playback e.t.c, maybe a few more options (such as clipping it to the right of the screen e.t.c).. but overall its done). There was just one more thing that I thought of while watching one of my music video''s with it a minute ago..... it''d be really cool if I could make it ALWAYS on top.. so it could sit in the top right of my screen (not much going on there) and play my music vids while I work on other things (or come here to post hehe). I''ve written the program using DirectShow for most of the media playback. the gui''s all done in msvc++ 6.0... but now I''m stuck as to how to get it to make it "always on top"... so that no matter what i have open... they''re behind it. Any help appreciated.

Look up SetWindowPos at msdn.microsoft.com - or if you have your copy of the win32 programmers reference guide to hand (If not, why not? You should get a copy with the win32 sdk) look it up in there.



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Alternatively, use WS_EX_TOPMOST with CreateWindowEx.

Cool stuff.... thanks a lot.

all i had to do was use SetWindowPos with HWND_TOPMOST as my hWndInsertAfter value... cool stuff.
Its up there.. in my top right corner, playing right now while I type this message..... very cool stuff.

Thanks again :D :D :D

~A very happy Cobra~