I am using modal dialogue(ShowDialog) in my project and now, user want to copy and paste few text from other application but modal dialogue will not allow them to do the same because modal pop up doesn't allow to focus on other screen. I know I can use modeless dialogue but at this point I can't. Now my question is, are there any way to have focus on other screen using modal dialogue box?
Dim f As New Form()
f.ShowDialog(Me)
The Show function shows the form in a non modal form. This means that you can click on the parent form.
ShowDialog shows the form modally, meaning you cannot go to the parent form
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I had a page with gridview when clicking on the hyperlink in the cell it will open a popup window.
When this popup is minimized I was not able to click anything on the parent page so I need when I double click of mouse on parent page I want this popup to be maximized. And I was not even able to open new tab also when popup is minimized .so new tab also have to be opened when popup is minimized I dont want to use any extra buttons in my design.
I'm working on my project in VB. Can anyone help me how to disable my main(not close) form when I open my login form?
Like when I click on the login button the login form will appear and the main form will just stay in background and it cannot be closed or moved unless the login form will be closed?
Look into the subject of a "modal" dialog box. You can instantiate one as follows:
Dim frmLogin as New Form()
' Display frmLogin as a modal dialog
frmLogin.ShowDialog()
This means that this form will have to be handled by the user before any other forms can be used.
I want my current "home form" to stay in the background when I click on a button which in turn opens another form on top of it.
I want something like this:
Home -> Click Button -> open new form -> New form becomes the focus of the app
-> Home form stays in the background
The home form should still be there, but I can't click on it or anything. When I click on the app, only the new form opened should be interactive.
If I understand correctly, you can use Form.ShowDialog method to show the form as a modal dialog box.
in my VB.NET application, my main Form can show other Forms. That works fine, but I need to set "focus" on the newly opened form, and don't allow the user use the main form until the opened Form is closed. How do I do that?
The Form.ShowDialog() method shows a form as a dialog box; this should keep the focus on that form until it is closed (by the user or your code).
Use the Form.ShowDialog() method.
It will show you the form as a dialog box, so focusing is at total, and it will ignore all other forms or objects.
If I have a form open already that is not modal, can I turn it modal by the click of a button on that form.
I don't suppose so. Usually you have to give the old form as a parameter in the constructor to create a modal form. The .Modal property is also read-only, so from my experience you have to indicate when creating the form.