Modal Forms On Touch Screen

[TTops]

I have a VB.NET Windows application I created in Visual Studio 2003. As the user touches buttons on the screen, forms are always opened using the ShowDialog method and I've been very careful to close or hide the previous form. Somehow when I look in on the program after being away for several hours, there will be multiple forms open on the task bar. The program has not crashed and all data manipulation is carried out correctly. At one point, I call a print function that momentarily flashes a small Windows dialogue box telling the user, "Now printing page 1...page 2..." and so on. Is it possible that this Windows form is taking the modal property away from my application? That could give the user the chance to touch behind the current form and re-activate the previous form. Any thoughts or new ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
T-Tops

 

[jebenson]

Make sure all your modal forms have the ShowInTaskbar property set to False.


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[TTops]

What are the implications of setting this property to False?

Thanks,
T-Tops

 

[TTops]

I guess what I'm asking is...if I'm closing the forms properly (i.e. "me.close"), shouldn't they disappear from the taskbar anyway?

Thanks,
T-Tops