cannot keep form topmost

[Jonathan]

Hi,

I have a parent(container) form which opens another form, and that one opens
another etc.., each form is open with Form.MdiParent = Me.MdiParent. (apart
from the first one which is just "= Me")

However, there is one form which is smaller than others, and i have set it
to Topmost = TRUE.

but the problem is when i click those forms at the background, the smaller
one will go disappear into background. How come? I thought it meant to stay
ontop, no?

Please help as I want it to stay ontop forever until i want to close it.
many thanks,
jon

[James]

when you call the child forms, are you using form.show or form.showdialog ?
showdialog makes the form modal, that will keep it on top, but limit your
functionality a bit...

"Jonathan" <Jo******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Hi,

I have a parent(container) form which opens another form, and that one opens another etc.., each form is open with Form.MdiParent = Me.MdiParent. (apart from the first one which is just "= Me")

However, there is one form which is smaller than others, and i have set it
to Topmost = TRUE.

but the problem is when i click those forms at the background, the smaller
one will go disappear into background. How come? I thought it meant to stay ontop, no?

Please help as I want it to stay ontop forever until i want to close it.
many thanks,
jon

[Jonathan]

I used form.show( )
I cannot use form.showdialogue, it gives me compile error.
"James" wrote:

when you call the child forms, are you using form.show or form.showdialog ?
showdialog makes the form modal, that will keep it on top, but limit your
functionality a bit...

"Jonathan" <Jo******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:83**********************************@microsof t.com...

Hi,

I have a parent(container) form which opens another form, and that one

opens

another etc.., each form is open with Form.MdiParent = Me.MdiParent.

(apart

from the first one which is just "= Me")

However, there is one form which is smaller than others, and i have set it
to Topmost = TRUE.

but the problem is when i click those forms at the background, the smaller
one will go disappear into background. How come? I thought it meant to

stay

ontop, no?

Please help as I want it to stay ontop forever until i want to close it.
many thanks,
jon

[Ged Mead]

I did some quick experimentation with this and found that if you set the
small form's TopMost property
to True at *Design Time* then you get the problem you describe (that is, it
doesn't stay on top).

However, I tried the following code block at runtime and it seemed to do the
trick.
See if it works for you:

Code:
Private Sub MenuItem9_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles MenuItem9.Click
Dim fp As New frmPredator
fp.Show()
fp.TopMost = True
End Sub
Ged Mead

"Jonathan" <Jo******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:83**********************************@microsof t.com...

Hi,

I have a parent(container) form which opens another form, and that one opens another etc.., each form is open with Form.MdiParent = Me.MdiParent. (apart from the first one which is just "= Me")

However, there is one form which is smaller than others, and i have set it
to Topmost = TRUE.

but the problem is when i click those forms at the background, the smaller
one will go disappear into background. How come? I thought it meant to stay ontop, no?

Please help as I want it to stay ontop forever until i want to close it.
many thanks,
jon

[Ged Mead]

I meant to mention - It seems that if you have more than one form with its
TopMost property
set to True then none of the forms remain as TopMost. This is the case
whether you set the
TopMost properties of the forms either at design time or at run time.

Ged Mead
"Jonathan" <Jo******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:83**********************************@microsof t.com...

Hi,

I have a parent(container) form which opens another form, and that one opens another etc.., each form is open with Form.MdiParent = Me.MdiParent. (apart from the first one which is just "= Me")

However, there is one form which is smaller than others, and i have set it
to Topmost = TRUE.

but the problem is when i click those forms at the background, the smaller
one will go disappear into background. How come? I thought it meant to stay ontop, no?

Please help as I want it to stay ontop forever until i want to close it.
many thanks,
jon

[Chris Dunaway]

On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 15:53:04 -0700, Jonathan wrote:

I cannot use form.showdialogue, it gives me compile error.

Did you spell it that way? 'showdialogue' ? It must be form.showdialog.
What compiler error are you getting? That should work.
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[Cor Ligthert]

Chris,

This is about MDI and in my opinion is the answer already given by Ged
Medhead

Cor