Disabling Main Form

[alan75]

Hi,

I want to have custom dialog box to work like a messagebox, whereby if the custom dialog box is shown, the main form that calls it will still be visible but cannot be clicked or closed until the opened dialog box is closed.

Thanks,
Alan

[gsgurdeep]

Please try this


Declare a variable of custom messagebox (desisngn by u) on class level in ur project.

EX:-
dim message as new custom messagebox



And
on button click or event raise write this code

message.visible=true
me.enable=false.

[alan75]

if i do that, everything in the form is disabled and buttons grayed out, i dun want that.

[ruckus]

if i do that, everything in the form is disabled and buttons grayed out, i dun want that.

Why don't you want that? Well, anyway you could have a boolean variable that is false unless the messagebox is up. All of the controls on the form will only be usable if the variable is false.

[stlarmon]

From Form1 use something like

Dim f As New Form2
f.ShowDialog()

The ShowDialog makes Form2 a Modal Form so Form1 can be seen but not accessed. Hope this helps.

[alan75]

exactly what i need! thanks!