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Hi

I have a borderless form that i am using as a popup, i want to display
this form without it stealing focus from the form it pops up over.

I do not want to display the form modally, as when the user click back
to the parent form i want it to dissapear (this i have working just
fine).

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Blu.
Nov 20 '05 #1
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* BluDog <ne**@nospam.bl udog.net> scripsit:
I have a borderless form that i am using as a popup, i want to display
this form without it stealing focus from the form it pops up over.


<URL:http://vbaccelerator.c om/article.asp?id= 13309>

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
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Nov 20 '05 #2
On 13 Jul 2004 11:33:53 +0200, hi************* **@gmx.at (Herfried K.
Wagner [MVP]) wrote:
* BluDog <ne**@nospam.bl udog.net> scripsit:
I have a borderless form that i am using as a popup, i want to display
this form without it stealing focus from the form it pops up over.


<URL:http://vbaccelerator.c om/article.asp?id= 13309>


Thanks for this, very interesting and helpful... gunna take some work
to get my existing popup forms to fit in with the helper class though!
Nov 20 '05 #3

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