Active Mdi Child Question[RESOLVED]

[Tewl]

I am writting a mdi application which contains multiple types of child windows and I am trying to keep track of what the next active window of a certain type is. I'm not sure how to explain this so try this.

2 window types of child forms: Visual and Custom

I have a variable for activeStatic which is the Visual child closest to the top of the active form stack

Say I closed a Visual child and I wanted to get the next one in the active form stack but the next window to get active in the application would be a Custom form.

Problem simply this.ActiveMdiChild would return the next window but it will not always be a Visual form and I do not want to close it to get to the next form I'm looking for.

Without having to code some huge collection/array to keep track of the order does anyone know a way of fixing my problem?

[hayessj]

In the MDI container form add the following code

		
public void windowClosed(Form closingForm)
{
	// get the child forms
	Form[] children = this.MdiChildren;
	// work back thro the stack of forms 
	for(int i=children.Length -1; i>-1; i--)
	{
		Form child = children[i];
		// if this child is not the closing form
		if (! child.Equals(closingForm))
		{
			// if the next child is the same type as the closing form then bring it up to top
			if (child.GetType().Equals(closingForm.GetType()))
			{
				child.BringToFront();
				break;
			}
		}
	}
}

In each if the child forms add the following code to the Closed event

private void FormXXX_Closed(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
	((FormContainer)this.ParentForm).windowClosed(this);		
}