The child form is modal. It's inside a top-level form that is minimized. It's running by itself in the backgroud, but when something needs the user's attention, I need to un-minimize the top-level form in order to notify the user.
I dont' see what that has to do why my variable changes from object to logical inside my method().
>I guess I was lost...
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>Why not make it easy and have the child form be modal?
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>>You lost me here. I don't see the connection between your questions and my question.
>>What I'm doing here is testing to see if a form's parent is minimized, and if it is set it back to normal. If the form doesn't have a parent, then it's ignored. The fact that I'm calling it from within a form by definition means a form is open. The fact that the forms collection has toolbars is immaterial.
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Bill Morris