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I’ve got a controlbar that is docked as a tab. Is it possible to get FlashWindow() to work with it? i.e. The tab for the docked controlbar is flashed when the controlbar is not visible.

Thank you for the interesting question. The CExtControlBar window has its own custom computed and painted non-client areas. Besides, the tab item which corresponds to each control bar is part of the client area of the CExtTabWnd-based window. The caption of the single floating control bar is part of the CExtMiniDockFrameWnd-window. So, the control bar cannot be flashed using standard Windows API in any of the described above states. We can only regard your question as a feature request. In addition, the flash appearance depends on the paint manager.

Thank you for your reply. I’ve added a chat function to the contact center that I’m developing, and I want to get the agents attention if someone have chatted with him. It doesnt have to be the FlashWindow() method.
Do you have any other suggestion to how I can get the agents attention to the chat controlbar. (without any popups or such since it can not interfere with the agents regular actions).

This feature is also missing in the CExtResizableDialog with CExtNCW. If i have a modal dialog and klick outside the dialog, then i get a flashwindow normally.