Focus-Grabbing Window

Hi,
I have an SDK 7.0.5 plug-in that displays PDFs in my own C# window through COM. When I call AVDocOpenFromASFileWithParams, the control I used to select the file loses focus. After the PDF finishes loading (which can obviously take a while if the file is large), focus is returned to my control. Is there a single-threaded way I can prevent the control from ever losing focus?
Thanks,
Daniel Sheiner

We create the "hidden window" as follows in C#:
     System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo startInfo = new System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo();
     startInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
     startInfo.FileName = path;
     startInfo.Arguments = "/n";
     startInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Minimized;
     _acrobat = System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(startInfo);
    NativeMethods.ShowWindow(_acrobat.MainWindowHandle, 0);
where path is the path to Acrobat.exe, and NativeMethods.ShowWindow is defined via DllImport from User32.dll.
Through COM, we pass our plug in the handle for our browser. We open the PDF with AVDocOpenFromASFileWithParams. The AVDocOpenParams we pass in has its serverCreationData set to an ExternalDocServerCreationData with its platformWindow set to the handle for our browser.

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