Forms and visibility 1

[ACTHelp]

I have an application that runs on a pc and loads data. This application runs for quite awhile so I've developed a few screens to let the users know where in the load process the program is. So.. first I have a main status form which has the high level steps the application goes through:

Step A

Step B

Step C

Step D

When each step begins I change the color of the label and when that step completes I delete the label and move to the next step.

During step A, some data is loaded. That data consists of 4 types of files with data for each of 20 market areas in the United States. I open another form (not a sub or a linked form) that is based upon a table where I update the progress of this load. Hence the users can see at a glance what has loaded and what remains to be loaded..

My problem is that when I open the second from...everything works fine, except the second form opens behind the current form and can't be seen. How do I make it visible (in front of the other form).

Opening of the Initial form:

gfrmStatus.Visible = True


Opening of the second form:

Form_frmPowerPlaytoExcelStatus.Visible = True
Form_frmPowerPlaytoExcelStatus.SetFocus
Form_frmPowerPlaytoExcelStatus.Refresh



The form frmPowerPlaytoExcelStatus opens and works fine, except it is behind gfrmstatus and I'd like it in front of gfrmstatus.

Thanks,

 

[GingerR]

is the MODAL property of gfrmstatus set to YES? that keeps it on top of everything else.

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[ACTHelp]

Thanks so much Ginger...MODAL was set to No, but Popup was set to yes. Changed Popup to no and it now works great!

Thanks Again