mdi child of a child

[Guest]

how do you make all child forms part of the container?

the container opens the form and it is a child (stays withing the container)
but when the child opens a form it is free floating. is there a way to make
the child's child stay within the container?

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

how do you make all child forms part of the container?

the container opens the form and it is a child (stays withing the
container)
but when the child opens a form it is free floating. is there a way to
make
the child's child stay within the container?

\\\
Dim f As New FooForm()
f.MdiParent = Me.MdiParent
f.Show()
///

 

[Guest]

i forgot to put in that the form is being called as a frm.ShowDialog();

how do i make these forms part of the container form?

using:
frm.MdiParent = this.MdiParent;
frm.ShowDialog();

does not work, i get:
"Forms that are not top level forms cannot be displayed as a modal dialog.
Remove the form from any parent form before calling showDialog."

is there still a way to keep it in the container form?

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

i forgot to put in that the form is being called as a frm.ShowDialog();

how do i make these forms part of the container form?

That's not supported. MDI children represent a set of documents, so there
is no way to show one of them modally. I suggest to show the form modally
to the MDI container.

 

[Guest]

is there an easy way to simulate them being showdialog?

so they're always on top of their parent form but you can still interact
with the rest of the program?

 

[Guest]

is there a way to simulate it?

easiest way to keep the child form on top of the form it came from but a
user can still interact with the rest of the program?