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Child Dialog in MDI parent

Ivan George Borges — Thu, 03 May 2007 11:00:08 GMT

Hi.

Is it possible to make a modal form (showdialog) be part of an MDI parent?

RE: Child Dialog in MDI parent

Trent L. Taylor — Thu, 03 May 2007 11:00:08 GMT

LOL...Yeah, I am sure that he will take the request personally to the VS team.

RE: Child Dialog in MDI parent

Ivan George Borges — Thu, 03 May 2007 10:46:21 GMT

I've just sent Bill Gates a Feature Request. :cool:

RE: Child Dialog in MDI parent

Trent L. Taylor — Thu, 03 May 2007 09:49:24 GMT

The "magic trick" in this case is to just not do that :D

RE: Child Dialog in MDI parent

Ivan George Borges — Thu, 03 May 2007 09:25:54 GMT

Thanks Trent.

Yeah, I've faced that error. Was wondering if there was a magic, or something.

RE: Child Dialog in MDI parent

Trent L. Taylor — Thu, 03 May 2007 08:40:20 GMT

Actually, no. When you call the ShowDialog method it requires that the modal form is a top-level form. In fact, if you try to set the MdiParent property to the MDI parent then call the ShowDialog method on the child form, you will get the error message:

"Form that is not a top-level form cannot be displayed as a modal dialog box. Remove the form from any parent form before calling showDialog."