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Drew Adams wrote:

>It turns out that this will do the trick for me:
>
>    (defun foo () (interactive)
>      (display-buffer (get-buffer-create "foo")
>      (select-frame-set-input-focus (window-frame (minibuffer-window))))
>
>It was select-frame-set-input-focus that I was missing - in particular,
>w32-focus-frame. I thought I had already tried it, but I guess not.
>  
>

Or, it is just that it is a bit tricky. I think there might be a race 
condition here. It does not work for me without the 
`run-with-idle-timer' I suggested.

I believe some part of the frame creation is run asynchronously.