Keeping MDI child form TopMost?

[Johnny Jörgensen]

I've got an MDI form with X child forms. ONE of these forms I want to keep
on top of the others.

I've set TopMost to true, but it doesn't work.

Can anybody give me an idea about how to accomplish that?

Cheers,
Johnny J.

 

[Guest]

I do not believe you can make an MDI child form as top most. What you are
looking for is more like a Microsoft Office type of application where open
windows are within the main window but some can be "top most". These are
called SDI applications or Single Document Interface. The links below have
some examples:

http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/sdimdiwizards.asp
http://www.arstdesign.com/articles/sdimdiwizards.html

Adrian.

 

[zacks]

I've got an MDI form with X child forms. ONE of these forms I want to keep
on top of the others.

I've set TopMost to true, but it doesn't work.

Can anybody give me an idea about how to accomplish that?

Cheers,
Johnny J.

Bringing an MDI child window from the background to the foreground
fires its Activate event. You will need to put code in the child
form's activate event to check to see if that form is the one you want
to keep on top, and if not, manually fire the BringToFront event for
the one you want to keep on top.