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How can I show a modal child form in a MDI app?

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gadgetguy1111

IS-IT--Management
Mar 19, 2002
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Hi,

I'm passing the values of a recordset to another form which has to be shown modally so that the user can react to it before I move to the next record.

The trouble is that vb doesn't allow forms to be shown modally in a MDI app.

I have used timers on the parent form (disabling the timers initially) so that the child form can remotely enable the timer on the parent form as a workaround for my other forms that require the child forms to be shown modally.

Anyone has any other workarounds?

Help very much appreciated cos I more or less have to display this form modally. The timer trick don't work here as the show statement is in the middle of a do loop. I'm using the loop to move through a recordset.

thanks

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Boon Kee
 
just use a normal modal form which is a copy of the mdi child form. Transfer the data into your mdi child form when you close the normal form.
 
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