Mappoint Control and non-modal windows

I'm creating a small program that uses the mappoint control from mappoint 
2006 in VB6 and in delphi. In both programs all non modal windows appear 
behind all other windows when they gain focus. This only happens when I have 
an active map open with the mappoint control. The form with the mappoint 
control seems to always be on top but when I try to click on one of the other 
windows in the same application, they get sent to the back. I've seen this 
happen on a few of our WinXP machines but it happens mostly on our Vista 
machine.

VB6 seems to handle modal forms ok but delphi displays all new forms behind 
the window that has the mappoint control.

Has anybody else seen this problem and is there a way to get my windows to 
behave normally while mappoint is active?

I did a little more research and found that the MapPoint control doesn't 
behave correctly when Extended support for advanced text services is enabled 
in Windows XP (this is found in control panel -> regional and language 
options -> languages -> details -> advanced). This seems to always be
enabled 
in Vista with no option of turning it off.

I have observed the Z-Order of all windows and found that Windows is 
creating a window called "Default IME" and puts all the forms for my
app 
within this window. But when I create a new map with the mappoint control by 
calling NewMap, it creates another "Default IME" window and all the
windows 
in my application seem to go back and forth between the two and in the wrong 
order. I can get rid of the other "Default IME" by calling CloseMap on
the 
mappoint control.

Does anybody know who I can contact to report this bug?
Or if there's already a fix for this?
I would imagine this would become more of an issue as more people develop in 
Vista.

"Reinier" wrote:

> I'm creating a small program that uses the mappoint control from mappoint 
> 2006 in VB6 and in delphi. In both programs all non modal windows appear 
> behind all other windows when they gain focus. This only happens when I
have 
> an active map open with the mappoint control. The form with the mappoint 
> control seems to always be on top but when I try to click on one of the
other 
> windows in the same application, they get sent to the back. I've seen this

> happen on a few of our WinXP machines but it happens mostly on our Vista 
> machine.
> 
> VB6 seems to handle modal forms ok but delphi displays all new forms behind

> the window that has the mappoint control.
> 
> Has anybody else seen this problem and is there a way to get my windows to

> behave normally while mappoint is active?
>