Not as simple as it looks

[Gregory Khrapunovich]

I have a form that opens several modeless dialogs. Sometimes they become
covered by other (unrelated) applications and its annoying to click on each
dialog to make them visible again. I would like all dialogs to become
visible when main form becomes visible. Main form keeps pointers to modeless
dialogs.

Here is what I tried:
- Created an Activate event handler for the main form and inserted a call to
dlg.BringToFront(). The main form becomes not operational (it wouldn't react
to any commands).

- Put a call to dlg.BringToFront() in main form Paint event handler. It's a
little better, but main form stops reacting if dialog overlaps with it.

- Replace dlg.BringToFront() with dlg.Invalidate() to force repainting. Does
nothing (dialog stays covered.

- In the main for Activate or Paint handlers also call the base class. Does
nothing (Activate) or makes it worse (Paint)

Any ideas?

Gregory Khrapunovich

 

[Tim Wilson]

Try setting the "Owner" property, of the dialogs, to the main form.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...rlrfsystemwindowsformsformclassownertopic.asp

 

[Gregory Khrapunovich]

Thank you! It did the trick. It's even better than I hoped for - bringing
any form to front brings the others. Dream came true.
Gregory