A problem with Form

[cantene]

Dear ALL,
I have a menu in the main form and of coz many other forms (some are dialogs while some are toolwindows) corresponding to each of the functions.

I found that when I minimize the main form, the dialog / toolwindow forms are still on the desktop. I hope to minimize them also. So I have tried setting them as the child form of the main one (MDIChild = true). But If I do so, the rearragning events like tileHorizontally will affect the positioning of the dialog form and the other child documents.

So I back to set MDIChild to False and set the borderstyle = 4 (Fixed Toolwindow) and position ot on the right side of the screen.

In the main form load sub, I type:

frmTool1.Show

it does, but at the back of the main window

so I hope to ask how to correct this?

What is the usual practice (i.e. the settings) VB programmers would use in dealing multiple forms?

Thank you

How can I

[marnitzg]

Dump this in your form load of the toolbar. It will put in on top and keep it there.

Private Declare Function SetWindowPos Lib "user32" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal hWndInsertAfter As Long, ByVal x As Long, ByVal y As Long, ByVal cx As Long, ByVal cy As Long, ByVal wFlags As Long) As Long

SetWindowPos Me.hwnd, -1, 0, 0, 0, 0, &H1 Or &H2

Now, to minimize with the other form inyour main form's form_resize event place something like this

If Me.WindowState = vbMinimized Then
     frmTool1.Visible = False
Else
     frmTool1.Visible = True
End If

Instead of using &H1 Or &H2 you can simply put 3.