Hi Jean-Marc,

maybe I haven't had enough coffee today, but your question is still a tad confusing.

You say you "want to simulate modal displaying with MDIChild forms". Thus:
1) you have a form's MDIChild property set as true. And 2) you want to do something like frmMDIChild.Show vbModal. But you can't do that for MDIChild forms, so you want a workaround. Correct? Interesting.

First off, does the child form that you want to display modal have to be a child form? Is is acceptable to make it a non-child form?

Second, I'm assuming you want the child form to act like a modal form when needed; that is, sometimes you want it modal, sometimes you don't.

Ok. I gotta think about this.

jody