make active more than one form

[tougo]

the subject tells it all
i want to be able to access multiple form created by my main form1 without closing the one and opening the other one..
how can this be achieved?

thank you in advance

 

[2ffat]

Are you talking about creating a multi-window form (MDI [Multi Document Interface]). This is where the main form has children forms. You can open of close any child windows but when you close the parent form, everything closes.

The parent's FormStyle property should be set to fsMDIForm. The other forms should be child forms so their FormStyle property should be set to fsMDIChild.
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[tougo]

i know about MDI...and i do not want that...
what i want is from an SDI application to open from the menu to different forms and to be able to access the both without closing the one or the other

 

[exodus300]

Just show() the form from the main form? Showmodal() makes it so u can't use any other forms till u close it. but show() should still allow you to access other forms.

Perhaps try changing the border style to fixed toolbar or sizable toolbar? [Thanks in advance|Hope I helped you]
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[tougo]

thank you very much ...i was using show modal (iam not at all c++ expert)so i feel kinda stupid for this