displaying windows

[Piotrek Stachowicz]

Hi,
My application has 3 windows, each of them is separate form. One of
them (called MainWindow) is visible in task bar, others are not. I'd like
them to behave in the following:

1) when main window gets focus (or is "restored"), others should be brought
to the front
2) when main window is minimized, others should also be minimized (hidden?)

I thought about handling "Activated" event in MainWindow, but I don't really
have any idea what to do next.

Thanks

Piotrek Stachowicz

 

[Tamir Khason]

Open 2 other windows as Dialogs.
Form f2 = new Form2();
f2.ShowDialog();

 

[mphanke]

Put a reference to each window into the main Form.

somewhere in your main form class you put
(ugly stuff)

public yourWin2Class window2;
public yourWin3Class window3;

in the main form on load you do:

window2 = new yourWin2Class();
window3 = new yourWin3Class();

//Put here the initialization from your last request ;-)

window2.Show();
window3.Show();

in the resize function of the main window you do:

window2.WindowState = this.WindowState;
window3.WindowState = this.WindowState;

// And again:
//Put here the initialization from your last request ;-)

This should do it. But you should check for the WindowState == Maximized
stuff and react on this, otherwise you will get funny behaviour(I guess)

Have fun,

Martin

 

[Rhy Mednick]

It seems like what you want to do is make the secondary forms owned by the
main form.

ChildForm1.Owner = MainForm;
ChildForm2.Owner = MainForm;

When a form is owned by another it is activated and minimized with its
owner. In addition, owned forms are never displayed behind their owner.

Hope this helps.
- Rhy