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Jul 20th, 2010, 07:03 PM
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Have a modal form but be able to access another already open form
Hi,
I know this sound strange but here is my scenario.
I have designed my app for multiple gridviews. When a user double clicks a row it opens up the data in a modal form and when they commit changes the row gets updated.
While they have that modal window open they can not go back to the grid.
But I have a alerts/messages window always running (like outlook tasks). As soon as I open the modal window I can not access that tasks window. (Default behaviour)
How can I open the modal form and still let the user access/view the tasks window while they work on the modal window.
(I tried creating it in a differant thread, but got a lot of cross thread errors so decided to abandon that approach.
I thought that 2 modal form can run at the same time as long as they have differant parents. But aparently the main GUI thread pauses as soon as you open a modal window on it.
p.s. I use LINQ-SQL entity objects.
It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits, and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible.
-Aristotle As quoted in Rapid Development, chapter 8, page 167.
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