bringing form to Top/Front

[Kevin Carter]

Hi there...hoping somebody can help me out because I am
almost ready to pull out my hair.

My problem is as follows:

In a method in my main form (non MDI app), I instantiate
and .Show another form. As a result of the .Show, the
form's Load event is called and I have a population
routine fires off. Normally, all is well and good and the
new form is active and gets displayed on top of the main
form.

I need to show a messagebox sometimes while populating the
new form, and whenever a messagebox is shown, the new form
always ends up "behind" the old form (but this only
happens when a messagebox is displayed).

After I .Show the form, I've all of the following tried
(not all at once):
newform.BringToFront()
.....
newform.Activate()
.....
oldform.SendToBack()
.....

In addition...I've tried setting the messagebox to be
displayed on the Activated event. I've tried using the
MessageBox owner parameter and passing in the form.

Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks very much for your
help.

Kevin

 

[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

Hi,

Why dont you try setting the topmost property of the newform to
true.

Ken

 

[Kevin Carter]

Ken, I just tried that but that won't work because that
makes the child form always appear over the parent form.
(Plus there can be many instances of the same child
form.) Thanks for the suggestion, though.

 

[Armin Zingler]

In a method in my main form (non MDI app), I instantiate
and .Show another form. As a result of the .Show, the
form's Load event is called and I have a population
routine fires off. Normally, all is well and good and the
new form is active and gets displayed on top of the main
form.

I need to show a messagebox sometimes while populating the
new form, and whenever a messagebox is shown, the new form
always ends up "behind" the old form (but this only
happens when a messagebox is displayed).

After I .Show the form, I've all of the following tried
(not all at once):
newform.BringToFront()
....
newform.Activate()
....
oldform.SendToBack()
....

In addition...I've tried setting the messagebox to be
displayed on the Activated event. I've tried using the
MessageBox owner parameter and passing in the form.

Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks very much for your
help.

Can you reproduce it in a new project? I tried to, but my second form is
shown in front of the first as expected.

 

[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

Hi,

last suggestion newform.focus

Ken
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