>>>when I have 2 depending forms I always instantiate the "son" as a property of the parent form
>>>thus closing the parent form also closes the child form (as it goes out of scope)
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>>Any special recommendations in order to make sure the parent will be closed first? I am using something like this right now which is mostly to scan all the forms and taking action on them.
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>My application object has a DoForm method
>which checks an Array to see if the form is already open (or how many copies of it are open etc.) and if not
>instantiate the form and register it
>upon shutdown the application object scan this array and send a terminate
>msg to to the dispatch method of each form
>then the form is responsible to cleanly close itself
>forms which are instantiated by forms (as "sub-forms") are not normally under
>the responsibility of the application object (it will "kill" any left-over forms at the end - if something went wrong etc.)
>and it is app to the parent form to handle its subforms (ie send them a terminate msg etc.)

Ok, thanks.