Prevent forms from minimizing with another form

[Kurt Van Campenhout]

Hi,

I have a form which opens up other forms from the UI (sort of a copy of the
current form to allow more than one view at the same time). This works fine,
but when I minimize the first form, it minimizes all the other forms that
have been spawned from that form as well.

How can I prevent this from happening?

I am using Visual Studio 2005, and I'm writing the application in VB.NET. If
you have code in another .NET language, that shouldn't be a real problem, so
C sharpeners , feel free !

Thanks for any and all help in advance!

Kind regards,
Kurt

PS: Remove the nospam at the end if you want to reply directly...

 

[Raaj]

Hi,

I have a form which opens up other forms from the UI (sort of a copy of the
current form to allow more than one view at the same time). This works fine,
but when I minimize the first form, it minimizes all the other forms that
have been spawned from that form as well.

How can I prevent this from happening?

I am using Visual Studio 2005, and I'm writing the application in VB.NET. If
you have code in another .NET language, that shouldn't be a real problem, so
C sharpeners , feel free !

Thanks for any and all help in advance!

Kind regards,
Kurt

PS: Remove the nospam at the end if you want to reply directly...

Kurt,

Minimize and close actions of a form co-relates to such actions
applied to the owner of the form.

You may have to assign the owner of the form's being spawned to the
main form or may be to the parent of the form that is creating these
forms.

public partial class Form2 : Form
{
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Form3 childForm = new Form3();
childForm.Owner = this.ParentForm;
childForm.Show();
}
}

I hope this helps.

Raaj

 

[Eric Robishaw]

You may also have displayed the form using the Show(owner) method with the
calling form passed in.

XyzForm f = new XyzForm();
f.Show(this); //will cause both forms to minimize when the current
form minimizes
f.Show(); //will not

 

[Raaj]

You may also have displayed the form using the Show(owner) method with the

calling form passed in.
XyzForm f = new XyzForm();
f.Show(this); //will cause both forms to minimize when the current
form minimizes

You probably misnterpreted the original post. The question was how to
prevent the child form from minimizing.

 

[Kurt Van Campenhout]

Thanks guys,

I'll try this as soon as I can!

Kurt.