Hi guys, it's a little problem but I'm quite stuck with it. I'm developing a Windows Forms application with VS2008 and I have noticed this little graphical bug. I have a main form with ShowInTaskbar=true. I open a modal form (with showdialog()) with ShowInTaskbar=false. Then, just sometimes, when a use the "Show Desktop" icon or I change the active program when I go back to mine I can see just the main form (the modal form is somehow hidden) and obviously it's locked, I can't interact with it. Neither I can see use the modal form because it's hidden, so I have to change the active program with ALT+TAB and the go back to my application. With this move I can get back my modal form and can continue working. How can I avoid this and keep my modal form "hidden" from the taskbar? Thank you in advance for your help cold
"cold80" wrote in message news:6b830b92-ffaa-43ed-80ae-80c03d4b6b32@p25g2000hsf.googlegroups.com... > Hi guys, it's a little problem but I'm quite stuck with it. I'm > developing a Windows Forms application with VS2008 and I have noticed > this little graphical bug. I have a main form with ShowInTaskbar=true. > I open a modal form (with showdialog()) with ShowInTaskbar=false. > Then, just sometimes, when a use the "Show Desktop" icon or I change > the active program when I go back to mine I can see just the main form > (the modal form is somehow hidden) and obviously it's locked, I can't > interact with it. Neither I can see use the modal form because it's > hidden, so I have to change the active program with ALT+TAB and the go > back to my application. With this move I can get back my modal form > and can continue working. How can I avoid this and keep my modal form > "hidden" from the taskbar? Try using the ShowDialog() overload that sets the modal form's owner, e.g. modalForm = new ModalForm(); modalForm.ShowDialog(this); Chris Jobson
