Multiple Forms acting as one

[Josh Handel]

I am working on a fairly complex GUI and I have a problem.. I have
several forms that work togeather to make up a Single UI. Here is my
problem.. How do I make it so that when any one form is selected the
group of forms pop to the front (as if the group were actually one
single form. I was going to do this all as one form with regions but
some parts of the UI have to "Snap" off to become satelite windows..
Anyways I have tried the GotFocus event but it seems to lock the form
group up.. What I really want is some way to detect what Z order one
of the forms is on the desktop and a way to move the other forms to
around that z order.

Thanks
Josh Handel

 

[news.microsoft.com]

Oh we all love N number of window Depths and popups .

Why not use Panels and docking, I prefer to have as few layers as possible
(Z orders). I like the oberon IDE approach. Tiling.

If i dont need it, hide it. WHat im workin gon now, make it the largest.
Simple, Like the VS.NET horizontal panels for grouping source files.

Make a UI too complex and funky and I shop around.
Skin an app like wincramp and bmp bubble buttons like MSN and I walk
elsewhere.

 

[Ken]

Josh what I would do is call a system function. I can't remember the name of
it, but it sets the window to the foreground.

And screw that news.microsoft.com guy!

 

[news.microsoft.com]

Do you normally go around screwing people online that you dont know?

 

[Daniel Billingsley]

What's your problem Ken? I thought his opinion, while maybe not expressed
in the best English, was perfectly apropos.