ShowPane without Activation

I have an application I'm working on where we have, say, a list of items you can scroll through and other windows display information about those items.

When the selectionChanged event is fired in the listView I want to bring the relevant data windows to that selection to the front of whatever set of windows it's in (basically make sure it's visible).

Unfortunately, the showPane function automatically takes focus away from the listView and setting back focus immediately doesn't seem to do anything (so far).

What I want to do is find an alternative (or a passable option parameter) for showPane that does -not- make the associated window active so that I can allow users to, say, scroll through the items.  I've tried other possibilities like setting them hidden and the like, but all roads so far lead back to having to use showPane, which I do not want to do.

Is there something I'm overlooking?

Hmm.  I would have to create a new one from scratch as I can't give anything out (NDA).

I'd think it was a very simple issue if I can get it across.  When you use showPane it makes the pane you are bringing to the front the active form for the application (I presume it calls Activate() on it).  That's what I want to avoid.  I don't want the pane to become the active form but I still want to bring it to the front in the docking system.

We have lists of things in another pane that users want to be able to scroll through via the scroll wheel or arrow keys, but showPane steals the focus away whenever they select an item in the list.  Admittedly it's a nicety to be able to bring relevant panes about that item to the front, but that feature vastly speeds up their workflow and we don't want to lose it (it's useful enough that being unable to scroll through things is worth suffering through).

Here's a quick example straight from our app:

selectedIndexChanged event:

            Pane thisPane = DockingPaneManager.FindPane(WindowID.DOCKING_WINDOW_GROUP_VIEW);
            if ((!thisPane.Hidden) && (!thisPane.Closed))
            {
// This code makes the pane active, stealing focus from our current window and making our users unhappy :)              DockingPaneManager.ShowPane(WindowID.DOCKING_WINDOW_GROUP_VIEW);
            }

            // Setting focus back immediately does nothing as focus appears to be lost right after this code finishes execution, perhaps in another thread.
            this.ListView.Activate();

I've tried puzzling through other things like making it hidden/unhidden but all other commands also seem to automatically call Activate() on the pane being shown.  I can't seem to find anything to avoid that.

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