>>I created a top level form to sit off to to the side of a modal form. The top level form has controls to adjust the layout of the modal form. All of this works really great. The problem comes up when you click on the modal form and, for example type in some text. After that, the only way you can get to the controls on the top level form is by clicking on the Title Bar first. Kind of awkward and not intuitive for the user. Is there anyway to get around having to click on the title bar first?
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Sergey,
It didn't work. I tried changing the main form to modless but it didn't work. If you click on the main form the focus is set to the main form and off the modless form and you have to click on the title bar or on the tab on the bottom windows bar to set focus back to the form.

I put some code in the main form so if the user hits the button to launch the modless form it sets focus to it. I could put code in the mousemove event in the main form so if the mouse passes over any non-object part of the form the modless form would get focus but there would still be times the user could hit the modless form without hitting that code.

Any ideas anyone?