Hi Shawn

I tend to agree that answers on this topic are not being completed thoroughly. However, you have to remember everyone is busy. I prefer to have one way to handle a given problem. The form manager object concept is like a traffic cop that tracks and handles messaging between the forms.

What if you add a menu option to cascade all open forms. Cascading means put each form just below and to the right of the previous form. If all forms were under "control" of a forms manager object, you can have a simple looping construct that would message each form to have them move into the correct position.

If a form set is involved, you have to do more work to figure out where those contained forms fit in the existing cascade. I'm not sure how I'd do it.

I had a problem about a year ago because I had one forma call formb. Forma kept an object reference to formb. When I tried to close the app, I couldn't because the object reference wasn't being released. The form manager had code to run through all forms and close them, but that didn't work. All I had to do was make the form manager release the forms from back to front (last to first) and everything cleared up nicely.