Modal form

[Rob]

In Access there was a modal property of a form... it required that the
current form be "answered" before getting to another form within the
program. Is there such a property in VB.net ? If not, how might you
accomplish this ?

Thanks!

[G Himangi]

Use Form.ShowDialog to display a modal form.

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"Rob" <ro***@yahoo.comwrote in message
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In Access there was a modal property of a form... it required that the
current form be "answered" before getting to another form within the
program. Is there such a property in VB.net ? If not, how might you
accomplish this ?

Thanks!

[Ray Cassick]

Two things..

1) You can look at the form border type property to control what buttons and
options are availabel on that form when shown. One of them is fixed dialog.

2) When you show the form use the ShoeDialog method:

Dim frm As New FormToShow
frm.ShowDialog

You can even get a dialog result from the from as it closes just like a real
standard dialog box by setting the forms DialogResult values.

Dim frm As New FormToShow
Dim retval as DialogResult

retval = frmShowDialog

If retval = DialogResult.OK

Else

End If

In this example the frm would have a setting as such:

Me.DialogResult = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK
"Rob" <ro***@yahoo.comwrote in message
news:G4******************************@comcast.com. ..

In Access there was a modal property of a form... it required that the
current form be "answered" before getting to another form within the
program. Is there such a property in VB.net ? If not, how might you
accomplish this ?

Thanks!

[gadgeteer]

What if the form that needs to be modal is not a Top-level form. For example
it is embedded as a docked control in a panel on another form?
"Ray Cassick" <rc******@enterprocity.comwrote in message
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Two things..

1) You can look at the form border type property to control what buttons
and options are availabel on that form when shown. One of them is fixed
dialog.

2) When you show the form use the ShoeDialog method:

Dim frm As New FormToShow
frm.ShowDialog

You can even get a dialog result from the from as it closes just like a
real standard dialog box by setting the forms DialogResult values.

Dim frm As New FormToShow
Dim retval as DialogResult

retval = frmShowDialog

If retval = DialogResult.OK

Else

End If

In this example the frm would have a setting as such:

Me.DialogResult = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK
"Rob" <ro***@yahoo.comwrote in message
news:G4******************************@comcast.com. ..

>In Access there was a modal property of a form... it required that the
current form be "answered" before getting to another form within the
program. Is there such a property in VB.net ? If not, how might you
accomplish this ?

Thanks!

[rowe_newsgroups]

On May 25, 9:29 pm, "gadgeteer" <[e-mail]:

What if the form that needs to be modal is not a Top-level form. For example
it is embedded as a docked control in a panel on another form?

"Ray Cassick" <[e-mail] in message

news:OO**************@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

Two things..

1) You can look at the form border type property to control what buttons
and options are availabel on that form when shown. One of them is fixed
dialog.

2) When you show the form use the ShoeDialog method:

Dim frm As New FormToShow
frm.ShowDialog

You can even get a dialog result from the from as it closes just like a
real standard dialog box by setting the forms DialogResult values.

Dim frm As New FormToShow
Dim retval as DialogResult

retval = frmShowDialog

If retval = DialogResult.OK

Else

End If

In this example the frm would have a setting as such:

Me.DialogResult = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK

"Rob" <[e-mail] in message
news:G4******************************@comcast.com. ..

In Access there was a modal property of a form... it required that the
current form be "answered" before getting to another form within the
program. Is there such a property in VB.net ? If not, how might you
accomplish this ?

Thanks!

I didn't know you could dock a form in a panel?

Thanks,

Seth Rowe

[Stephany Young]

Of course you can!!!!!!

form.Parent = control

I think the question should have been:

Why on earth would one want to use a docked form as a modal dialog?
"rowe_newsgroups" <ro********@yahoo.comwrote in message
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On May 25, 9:29 pm, "gadgeteer" <[e-mail]:

>What if the form that needs to be modal is not a Top-level form. For
example
it is embedded as a docked control in a panel on another form?

"Ray Cassick" <[e-mail] in message

news:OO**************@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

Two things..

1) You can look at the form border type property to control what
buttons
and options are availabel on that form when shown. One of them is fixed
dialog.

2) When you show the form use the ShoeDialog method:

Dim frm As New FormToShow
frm.ShowDialog

You can even get a dialog result from the from as it closes just like a
real standard dialog box by setting the forms DialogResult values.

Dim frm As New FormToShow
Dim retval as DialogResult

retval = frmShowDialog

If retval = DialogResult.OK

Else

End If

In this example the frm would have a setting as such:

Me.DialogResult = Windows.Forms.DialogResult.OK

"Rob" <[e-mail] in message
news:G4******************************@comcast.com ...
In Access there was a modal property of a form... it required that the
current form be "answered" before getting to another form within the
program. Is there such a property in VB.net ? If not, how might
you
accomplish this ?

>Thanks!

I didn't know you could dock a form in a panel?

Thanks,

Seth Rowe