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oscar - 19 Apr 2005 15:58 GMT

how do you make all child forms part of the container?

the container opens the form and it is a child (stays withing the container)
but when the child opens a form it is free floating. is there a way to make
the child's child stay within the container?

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] - 19 Apr 2005 17:21 GMT

"oscar" <oscar@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb:

> how do you make all child forms part of the container?
>
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> make
> the child's child stay within the container?

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Dim f As New FooForm()
f.MdiParent = Me.MdiParent
f.Show()
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oscar - 19 Apr 2005 19:30 GMT

i forgot to put in that the form is being called as a frm.ShowDialog();

how do i make these forms part of the container form?

using:
frm.MdiParent = this.MdiParent;
frm.ShowDialog();

does not work, i get:
"Forms that are not top level forms cannot be displayed as a modal dialog.
Remove the form from any parent form before calling showDialog."

is there still a way to keep it in the container form?

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] - 19 Apr 2005 20:01 GMT

"oscar" <oscar@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb:

> i forgot to put in that the form is being called as a frm.ShowDialog();
>
> how do i make these forms part of the container form?

That's not supported. MDI children represent a set of documents, so there
is no way to show one of them modally. I suggest to show the form modally
to the MDI container.

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oscar - 19 Apr 2005 20:12 GMT

is there an easy way to simulate them being showdialog?

so they're always on top of their parent form but you can still interact
with the rest of the program?

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oscar - 19 Apr 2005 20:13 GMT

is there a way to simulate it?

easiest way to keep the child form on top of the form it came from but a
user can still interact with the rest of the program?

> "oscar" <oscar@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb:
> > i forgot to put in that the form is being called as a frm.ShowDialog();
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> is no way to show one of them modally. I suggest to show the form modally
> to the MDI container.

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