Find another form?

Okay, I've just started playing with this new toy and have managed to
say "Hello world" um, 13 or so times. much fun.

I see how to open a form with .showdialog, but
how do I find instances of forms that may already be visible?

i.e. we have several forms that get loaded at several points in our application.
what they apply to depends on where they were opened....
they could be opened via modal or not modal.

but, at somepoint in our app we go see if this form is shown, if
so, we
bring that to the operators attention so he can finish the old operation or abort.

how would I do somthign liek this? I don't want seven of the same forms
floating all over my application.

Are we speaking of multi instance of the same form or are we speaking of multi forms..? either way it should be simple enough to do depending on what your code is like now

if you are making mult of the same form make a type in a module

Code:

---

Public Type
    FormName As String      'umm name
    FormID as Integer        'just a number
    Form Loaded as Boolean  'still open..? this one is the most important
End Type

---

then at an iterval of your choosing loop through it and check the status of your forms and clean out any that aren't loaded so you don't get bogged down this is usually done for mdi application that have lots of the same document (form) open