I think you have mis-understood what i meant. Using ShowDialog() will not
allow any focus on the form that called the dialog, my needs are to allow
focus on that form, and that form only. In effect, opposite of the
ShowDialog() function. If i change focus to say outlook from my app, it
should stop the find dialog from being top most.
Look at notepad, see how when you open up the find dialog box it allows you
to carry on working in the background of notepad? That is what i want to
implement.
Cheers
Mark
"Eric Eggermann >" <<none> wrote in message
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"Mark Ingram" <ma*********@nexsan.com> wrote in message
news:vN****************@newsfe3-win.server.ntli.net... Hi,
ive just had to make a Find dialog for an application and to get it in a
similar style to the MS ones i have had to set the control style to TopMost so that i can move the caret around whilst the find dialog is open.
However i want to know when i lose the focus, if it ISNT the form that called my
find dialog, i want to change the topmost style to a normal style so
that it wont be displayed on top of the other form.
Does that make sense? If there is a better way of howto go about doing that doesnt hesitate to mention it.
Thanks
Mark
I would check to see if one of the overloaded methods of ShowDialog
couldn't be used to make the framework do that for you. Then you pass a reference
to the form when you show the find box using .ShowDialog. Anyway, I haven't
done it, just that I'd look at that.
HTH,
Eric
