Windows Form Topmost...

[Mandragon03]

I have an MDI form that has 4 child forms that are locked on top of any
other child form in the MDI. I want to unlock these 4 forms so they are
not always on top of all the other forms in the MDI. When I set

ChildForm1.TopMost = false;

It does nothing. Is there another another property I should be looking
at?

Thanks!

 

[Dave Sexton]

Hi,

How did you "lock" child forms?

Normally, you would just call the Activate method on the child Form that you
want displayed (or ActivateMdiChild on the MDI parent).

 

[Mandragon03]

Thats a good question. I did not "lock" them. I am supporting someone
else's program...

I am trying to determine what is forcing these 4 windows to be on top
no matter what I do. I thought if I set the TopMost value to false(it
was previously set to true) it would take care of the problem but it
didn't. So I am trying to find out if there is another property of the
Forms that can be adjusted. Is there another way to force the forms to
be on top?

Thanks,

Mandragon

 

[Dave Sexton]

Hi,

Not that I'm aware of. Have you tried calling the Activate method on a
visible, MDI child form that isn't one of the four top-most to see if it
shows up?

 

[Mandragon03]

I just found out that he is setting the parent with a function in a
..dll. When I set the parent with

form.MdiParent = this;

It works fine. Thanks to anyone who looked at this.

Mandragon