How to bring my application to the front?

Question

I know all the reasons why it is a bad idea. I dislike it if an application steals input focus, but this is for purely personal use and I want it to happen; it will not dist

Answer 1

Here's something simple that seems to work, tested with multiple boxes consisting of XP, Server2003, Vista, Server2008, W7. Test application ran with a standard (or admin) account, stole the input focus from notepad while writing in the foreground.

var
  Input: TInput;
begin
  ZeroMemory(@Input, SizeOf(Input));
  SendInput(1, Input, SizeOf(Input)); // don't send anyting actually to another app..
  SetForegroundWindow(Handle);

You can tweak it further f.i. for a minimized app or such if required.