>Hi Sid,
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>>I know this should be straight forward but my mind feels like mush in picking up WPF and Mere Mortals.
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>>I'm trying to display a form for a vendor when their record is selected from inside a customer tab display. I can get the form to display with
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>>mmAppWPF.WindowManager.Show(new VendorList() );
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>>But I want the vendor form to be owned by the "MainWindow" form not the "Customer" form. How do I reference the "MainWindow" form?
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>>I know "this" references the calling window. As an additional aspect of this, eventually I want the vendor form to come up on a details tab with the selected vendor record displayed.
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>>I know all this should be easy, but the older I get the tougher it is "absorb" new language constructs!
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>>Thanks,
>>-Sid Meyers.
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>I am just taking a shot at this since I am not looking at the code right now. I assume you are not calling WindowManager.Show from the MainWindow then. Is the Main Window the parent of the form you are calling from. Does this.Parent get you there?
>mmAppWPF.WindowManager.Show(new VendorList(), this.Parent);
>Tim

Tim,

Thanks for the reply. No, I ended up with the following:

        mmAppWPF.WindowManager.Show(new VendorList(), (mmBaseWindow)this.Owner);

Now I just need to figure out how to move the pointer to the right record and move the focus to the details tab!

Thanks again,
-Sid.