VS 2008 Open An App As Modal Of An App?
Feb 25, 2010What i want to do is open an application so that it is modal of my interface but in a secondary thread (as the WaitForExit stops my applications interface) how can i do this?
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Open A Form As Modal Without Using Showdialog()?
Feb 11, 2011I want to open a form as modal without using showdialog()Problem with showdialog() is we can not open the form as mdi child with it. i want to open few forms as modal but as mdi child forms. but i want to make sure user cannot go anywhere else without closing thst form.if we set parent form enabled = false then i can not set it as mdi child otherwise that form also becomes enabled=false.
if we write showdialog() then so many form icons will appear on taskbar. it we open as mdi child then only one icon appear i don't want to appear so many icons on taskbar so i want to open as mdi child but as modal
for eg. Mainform = mdi form
from mainform open formA = as mdi child of main form (but modal)
from formA open formB as child (modal)
from formB open formC as child (modal). if i use showdialog() then so many form icons on taskbar.
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Close A Modal Form From Who Initiated Modal One?
Feb 25, 2011I have a parent form (form1), which is calling a second form (form2) as modal.[code]...
No form2 is modal. Closing this form2 from the form itself is clear.But how can I close the form via myform2.close from form1 via an event handler?
Have A Modal Form But Be Able To Access Another Already Open Form
Jul 20, 2010I have designed my app for multiple gridviews. When a user double clicks a row it opens up the data in a modal form and when they commit changes the row gets updated.While they have that modal window open they can not go back to the grid.But I have a alerts/messages window always running (like outlook tasks). As soon as I open the modal window I can not access that tasks window. (Default behaviour)How can I open the modal form and still let the user access/view the tasks window while they work on the modal window.(I tried creating it in a differant thread, but got a lot of cross thread errors so decided to abandon that approach.I thought that 2 modal form can run at the same time as long as they have differant parents. But aparently the main GUI thread pauses as soon as you open a modal window on it.
View 10 RepliesVS 2008 Non-modal Form To Act Modally?
Aug 17, 2011All of my forms are MDI children. I have one form that is collecting input parameters for a report. One of the parameters needs to come from another form. For the life of me, I can't get it to work.
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I have to message box code just to verify the selection. glbPart is just a hand off parameter to tell the frmVendorList code to come back to this form rather than where it was origianlly programmed to go.I tried a do until glbVendor <> "", but that put me into a death loop and I never got to select a vendor from the vendor list form. Obviously, the easiest would be if I could make frmVendorList Modal, but I can't see how to do that once it's been created modally.
VS 2008 Reload Modal Form
May 18, 2011I have a form with a browser inside. When loading this form I set the browser.navigate to a url.Now to display this form I used the: form. ShowDialog()to have the form modal (which is what I want).But now when I close this form and reopen it, the browser doesn't refresh (the navigate doesn't start)this is beacuse closing a Showdialog() form doesn't unload it from the memory. To empty the memory I used the.[code]It closes and when reopened it reload the page, but it's not modal anymore and also closing the main form doesn't close this form.So what I would like is to have the form with the browser modal, but every time I load it, it should navigate to the url set.
View 8 RepliesVS 2008 Modal Form Closing Unexpectedly
Dec 18, 2009I have a modal form that does double duty.When a user wants to add a new object to a database, I open the form blank and they fill it out. When the form closes, all of the data is passed back to my main form and is used to create the new object in the database.When a user wants to edit an existing object, I open the form and pre-populate all of the fields with the object's data.I'm running checks on the form as they edit the fields, only enabling the "OK" button (which will update the database) if the form has actually been changed. If they make a change and then undo it, the "OK" button is reset to Enabled = False.At the bottom of the form are a ComboBox, two buttons and a ListBox. The intent is to allow the user to select an item from the ComboBox and "Add" ("Add" button) to the ListBox, or select an item in the ListBox and "Remove" ("Remove" button) it FROM the ListBox.
This function works fine when the form is loaded blank.When the form is loaded with data, however, (and in the testing I've done, the ListBox has no items in it to start, which is valid), adding an item from the ComboBox to the ListBox causes the Modal form to close with a DialogResult of Cancel.I've tried to trace the source of this issue, but stepping through each line in debug mode gives me no clue as to why this is happening.I COULD remove all of the checks and update the form each time the user presses "OK" (in the case of no changes, the database data would be overwritten with the same data), but that seems kludgy and less elegant. Plus, I'd like this logic to work.
VS 2008 Open And Close Connection Every Second, Or Keep It Open All The Time??
Oct 21, 2009In my program, I have a timer with a inteval set to 1000ms. The timer is executing a MySQL-command, and right now I'm opening and closing the connection each time.
View 5 RepliesVS 2008 : Modal Form Hide Instead Of Close - Main Form Does Not Close
Mar 20, 2009I have a main form that has a button with which a smaller form is shown. Think of the smaller form as the Find/Replace dialog in many applications, such as Notepad. It's important that the form is (what I believe is called) modal. What I mean is that it always stays on top of the main form. I ensure that by calling the Show method with "Me" as the owner argument. Whenever the small form loses focus it will not disappear into the background but stay visible (albeit out of focus). If you don't understand open up Notepad and have a look at the behavior of the Find/Replace dialog.
Here's my problem: instead of actually closing the form when the X is pressed, I want it to simply Hide itself, so its position and the state of any controls (checkboxes etc) is preserved automatically.To achieve this I simply cancel the FormClosing event and Hide it:
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Private Sub Form2_FormClosing(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.FormClosingEventArgs) Handles MyBase.FormClosing
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To show the form, I use the following (note the (Me) to make the main form the owner of the form; this ensures that it remains visible even when it is out of focus):
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Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Form2.Show(Me)
End Sub
Now. When I run my project, and open the Form2 (small form), then hide it again (by 'closing' it), I can no longer close the main form (Form1)! It seems the main form cannot close when the small form still exists (albeit invisible)...?? When I don't use the Me argument in the Show method, I don't get the behavior I want. I know I can set the TopMost property to True but that will also cause it to become visible on top of all the other forms, even windows not part of my application.
Give A Message As Modal?
Jun 23, 2011Sometimes the app is working in a long time process, and I wnat to tell the user something like "Wait a moment, please"
I though to use a modal form but if I show this form, the process I said is not initiated.
How can I give this kind of messages?
Modal Panel With Asp.net Being Programmed
Apr 9, 2009I have an ajax modal panel with a div on it that I access from the server and dynamically insert a table into, by showing the values of various controls on the calling form.My problem is this, it works fine if all my controls are doing auto postback, but it ruins the user experience, because tabbing through the controls, the controls lose focus during the automatic postback.Is there a way to have my target control perform a postback, before it puts up the modal, so I can retrieve not posted controls data in the modal?
View 2 RepliesPass A Value Into A Modal Form?
Jan 29, 2012I'm trying to pass a value from the main form, "form1" into "form2". I'm opening "form2" as a modal dialog from this line of code:
form2.ShowDialog()
Progressbar In Another Modal Form
Jun 10, 2011I have a form where I generate a report on some button click. I need to show another Form in Modal Form, And Place Progress bar on that and Increment the status, from calling form so that when progress bar is running user cannot close the form (where I placed button for showing report). To calculate progressbar's percentage is in the form where button to show report is.
View 4 RepliesAsp.net - Closing Modal Window Programmatically?
Apr 26, 2012I have a modeal window that I am showing in .aspx. How do I close this modal window in VB.net programmatically?
View 1 RepliesAsp.net - Error Message When Modal Is Empty
Sep 22, 2011I have a couple of modal popups on my page that hold checkboxes. The checkboxes are different items that can be added to a specific product. Some products, however, have all of one type of item assigned to them. I need a way to show a message in the modal when the modal is empty.
I have tried using a Label inside the modal that says "All features are currently associated with this product." But the label leaves a space in the modal when it's visibility is set to hidden and that was annoying so I ditched that idea.
What is a good way to have a hidden message that shows up when the modal is empty?
<asp:LinkButton ID="FeatureButton" runat="server">Feature</asp:LinkButton>
<asp:Panel ID="FeaturePanel" runat="server" CssClass="modalPopup"
Style="display:none">
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Assign A Textbox Value To Modal-box On Same Page
Apr 24, 2012How to get the textbox value on code-behind after the textbox value assigned on a modal-box? [code]Rows(i).Cells(0) is the first column on the Gridview, it is "ID". This ID will be assigned to the Textbox1 while the Linkbutton clicked.The Javascript code is on the same page as the Gridview code:[code]When I clicked the Save Button on the modal-box, the value on the Textbox1 can't catch on the code-behind. It always return null value. How to do that?
View 2 RepliesCan Edit Inside Of A Modal Popup
Oct 27, 2011However, I am not using a gridview so editing is not as simple as an edit within a gridview. The modal popup disappears when I click on the edit button. Here is what I have so far, but in the codebehind I get an error saying that my modal isn't declared.In the image below, the little pencil image next to the close button is what I click on to edit the description. When I click on it, the modal disappears, so I cannot edit the text.
<!-- Descriptions -->
<asp:TabPanel ID="tab2" runat="server" HeaderText="Descriptions">
<HeaderTemplate>Descriptions</HeaderTemplate>
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Display A Modal Dialog Without Dispalying Other?
May 20, 2010I have a large VB.Net 2008 rich client database app and in it some screens take a bit to load, 1 - 5 seconds and two of them take up to 15 seconds. Right now I have a me.hide in my form load, I do my loading of drop downs and data, then do a me.show. It works decent and gives the impression that the program is quick. What I would like to do however is have a "waiting" or "loading" screen with a animated gif pop up while it's doing its data loads.
So I created a "WaitingForm" that has no border and a single picture box. In the form load of this waiting form it assigns a animated gif to the picture box. I set the form to be top most, no control box, etc.
If I call this waiting from from within my from load events as WaitingForm.show the animation doesn't work and the form only half shows (and in the wrong place on the screen). If I call this form using a WaitingForm.ShowDialog it correctly shows in the center of it's parent and displays the animated icon BUT blocks the calling form from processing and defeats the entire purpose.
How do I display the waiting form like it's a dialog box so it correct centers on it's parent and displays correctly but doesn't block the lower form from processing? Currently when I call the waiting form I give it a integer for how many seconds to display and then a timer on the waiting form counts down and closes itself. Do I need to use a worker thread and if so what is the easiest way to do this so the code is reusable from multiple different screens?
Display Reports With Non Modal MessageBox
Mar 8, 2012Am writing a VB.Net app written in VS2010. This displays some reports in several forms. (Am using Crystal Reports though this is incidental to the problem). The user needs to be able to check these, then confirm if he wishes to run the update process or abort. My first idea was to ask the user to reply using a messagebox. But of course this is modal, so the user cannot browse through the reports.
I thought of other options but each seems to have problems:
- export the reports as PDFs, then display report in external Adobe Reader Window using System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("AcroRd32.exe", filename).
- create a non-modal message box or equivalent. This loses any concept of program flow, so am unconvinced by this.
Evaluating Modal Dialog Result?
Apr 4, 2011Private Sub Button4_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button4.Click
With Me.PrintForm1
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How To Temporarily Hide A Modal Form
Mar 29, 2009I've created an Excel COM add-in that has several forms. The application has the following forms:
FormA (Modeless): Excel.Application is parent
FormB (Modal): FormA is parent
FormC (Modal): FormB is parent
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IDE :: Controlling A Modal Form From A Module?
Nov 17, 2009I have a situation where I need to display a Modal Window from a vb.net module and feed the contents to that modal form from the module.I am showing the form , feeding data to it from a class module and trapping the events in it using a timer control from the module.It works fine with Show() method but it doesn't with ShowDialog().If I used ShowDialog() then I was not able to continue with the code followed by it and not able to update any contents in the modal form.
I am using VS2003 version.Is there any workaround to this?
Managing Modal Forms Location
Oct 3, 2010I've got a "Loading" form which I display as a modal form when doing lengthy processes. I'm using the below to keep the form centred within the child form performing the process. However, when minimisingmaximising the "Loading" form appears before the parent making it look a little unprofessional. Anything I can do about that (Delay it appearing or attaching it in a different way)?
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Modal Dialog With Multiple Forms
Jul 21, 2009Is there a way to specify what forms are Locked when opening a Modal Dialog? I want to have a specific form available even if a Modal dialog is opened. The form in question is a child form (Accessible from the Windows application bar), that is created from the main application form. The Modal Dialog should only lock the main application form, and not the secondary window. Is it possible to make a secondary form independent from the main application form?
View 1 RepliesSwitch Form To Modal After It Is Opened?
Sep 20, 2010If I have a form open already that is not modal, can I turn it modal by the click of a button on that form.
View 1 RepliesUpdate Any Contents In The Modal Form?
Nov 17, 2009I have a situation where I need to display a Modal Window from a vb.net module and feed the contents to that modal form from the module.I am showing the form , feeding data to it from a class module and trapping the events in it using a timer control from the module.It works fine with Show() method but it doesn't with ShowDialog().If I used ShowDialog() then I was not able to continue with the code followed by it and not able to update any contents in the modal form.
View 4 RepliesUse Binding To Display A Modal Form?
Apr 1, 2010As part of my design for a re-write of some vb6 code, i've got some business rules that check the data being entered. These rules run on the business layer, but if they find any data that is incorrect, they need to display a modal form showing the 'violation' (or could be a warning, a question or some information).
So what i'm after doing is to somehow display a modal form in my presentation layer triggered by my business layer.
The only solution i've come up with is to raise an event to get the modal form displayed, catch the event in the presentation layer and display the form (all items on the form would be bound and so would display the correct information). Problems with this is that i would then have to put the code to sleep in the business layer until i got a responce from the presentation layer.
VS 2005 : Loading Two Modal Forms?
Aug 15, 2009I have a main form when loaded will display a login form. I want that when the main from loads, the login form and another form will be loaded side by side.How do I show two modal forms?
View 2 RepliesVS 2005 Loading Two Modal Forms
Aug 22, 2010I have a main form when loaded will display a login form. I want that when the main from loads, the login form and another form will be loaded side by side.How do I show two modal forms?
View 19 RepliesVS 2010 How To Return A Value From A Modal Form
Jun 4, 2010I have a parent form that can open a modal form which contains a populated listbox. In the parent form, I can use DialogResult to detect which item in the listbox the user chose in the modal form. But I also want the modal form to return a string that was generated in the modal form.
EDIT: Ok, I suppose some code is necessary? In I would like to return the "longPath" string variable(near bottom of second pic) to form1(first pic).