Main window doesn't get focus

[Emilio]

Hello,

When I use a RadSplashScreen at the launch of my application, the application's main window doesn't receive focus and appears behind other windows. I've seen a reference to this type of behavior on another thread regarding RadWindow (https://www.telerik.com/forums/mainwindow-losts-focus-after-child-radwindow-is-closed), but the solution there doesn't seem applicable to this control.

I created a sample application (https://github.com/3milio/RadSplashScreenHidingMainWindow) with VS 2017 following your getting started guide. Mind trying it out and seeing if I'm missing a step? For me, when I hit F5 in the debugger to run it the splash screen appears on top of it but then when the main window gets instantiated it hides behind other programs.

Also, when I first cloned the repo and ran it in the debugger it didn't demonstrate this behavior. But any time after that, it did. That includes running it with the Release configuration, as well as simply running the .exe from Windows Explorer.

Thanks,

Emilio

[Vladimir Stoyanov]

Hello Emilio,

Thank you for the referenced sample. 

What I can suggest for the described scenario is to activate the MainWindow when it is Loaded. Here is what I have in mind:

public partial class MainWindow : Window
    {
        public MainWindow()
        {
            InitializeComponent();

            this.Loaded += (s, e) => this.Activate();
        }
    }

Do give this a try and let me know how it goes.

Regards,
Vladimir Stoyanov
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[Justin]

Activate() does not appear to be available for RadWindow in v2023.1.117. How does one do this with a RadWindow?

[Dinko]

Hello Justin,

You can achieve this requirement by taking the parent element of the visual tree which is the Window in your case with the ParentOfType method. After taking the Window element you can use its Activate method.

var host = radWindow.ParentOfType<Window>();
host.Activate();

 

[Emilio]

This worked perfectly. Thanks, Vladimir.