[RESOLVED] How Can I show Form2 Without Show all Project Forms !?

[Edgemeal]

Because when you activate any of the Forms in your app, VB automatically brings to the foreground all the other visible Forms as well.

There is a workaround for that, but IIRC it involves setting the windows GWL_HWNDPARENT , something like...

Private Declare Function SetWindowLong Lib "user32.dll" Alias "SetWindowLongA" ( ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal nIndex As Long, ByVal dwNewLong As Long) As Long
Private Const GWL_HWNDPARENT As Long = -8

Dim oFrm As Form2
Set oFrm = New Form2
oFrm.Show
SetWindowLong oFrm.hWnd, GWL_HWNDPARENT, 0&

Though its been years since I used that so may be incorrect,
I got a couple tricks like that from this old thread here.

EDIT some code I was using in my app...

Public Sub SetWinSelf(f As Form)
' this makes a form not activate other forms open on desktop when it gets the focus. 
' FOR COMPILED EXE.
        f.Show
        SetWindowLong f.hwnd, GWL_HWNDPARENT, CreateWindowEx( _
         &H80, "ThunderRT6Main", vbNullString, &H94000000, _
         0&, 0&, 0&, 0&, 0&, 0&, GetWindowLong(f.hwnd, GWL_HINSTANCE), 0&)

For testing in IDE, .

    ' **** CODE TO TEST IN IDE ONLY *******
    'SetWindowLong Chld.hWnd, _
              GWL_HWNDPARENT, _
              CreateWindowEx( _
                             &H80, "ThunderMain", _
                             vbNullString, &H94000000, _
                             0&, 0&, 0&, 0&, 0&, 0&, _
                             GetWindowLong(Chld.hWnd, GWL_HINSTANCE), _
                             0&)

I don't have VB6 installed on any PCs anymore so can't test, but I believe the above hides the form from taskbar also, don't really remember , see URL above.

HTH.