MDI program and child forms

[bwuk]

Hi,

I have an MDI project and it allows the user to show any number of child forms. However, when about 3 children are showing, the child windows go through a crazy loop as if they are all fighting to be the top window. After about 10 seconds, the settle down but obviously it shouldn't happen. I'm calling the forms in the MDI form like:

Private Sub cmdResellerDetails_Click()
frmResellers.Show
End Sub

Private Sub cmdProfitSell_Click()
frmProfitSell.Show
End Sub

Where frmResellers and frmProfitSell are both child forms. Does anyone know why my windows are going crazy?

[ccoder]

I guess the quetion is: what are the child forms doing when they load?

[bwuk]

For example, I want form2 to show, but form1 is already visible. When form2 loads, form1 will grab the focus, then form2 then form1 then form2 repeat ad finitum (well for a while anyway )

[The Hobo]

I think he means code wise, what are the forms doing when they load? What is in their Form_Load?

[bwuk]

Oh sorry, my bad

One of the forms loads at the beginning of the program

One of the forms does a db query and then moves controls based on the width of the program

One of the forms moves controls based on the width of the program

Another thing is that in form_resize on all 3 forms, I have:

me.windowstate = 2

Could that be causing the probems?
Should I change it to:

if not (me.windowstate = 2) then
me.windowstate = 2
end if

[judybob]

I had a similar problem. In one form, I was referring to a control on a different child form. Just referring to the control on the other form caused the other form to be loaded and that started an endless loop.