>Kevin,
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>>I'll respond but I'm on my way out so if I don't respond until Monday - I'm not being unsociable :-)
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>And I won't be around all weekend either, as I usually am, so other than today, I may not respond again until Monday either. =)
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>> ... with a Modal form I have to wait until it is released - and that ain't no good.
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>I'm wondering if you've got a few misconceptions about Modal Forms. First, it's not released when it's closed. It's simply hidden, so it still exists. You have to set each button's .DialogResult property to a DialogResult enum (so your Next button might be btnNext.DialogResult = DialogResult.OK and your Cancel button might be btnCancel.DialogResult = DialogResult.Cancel). That's all that's needed to make the form behave properly when it's called with MyForm.ShowDialog().
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>Now, I know you said that you want the form to still be there when you're done with it, so maybe that's why you're opposed to a ModalForm, but since the form really still exists, you could simply display it again. As I said, it hasn't been closed, it's simply hiding.
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>I know I'm being stubborn about this (trying to get you to use .ShowDialog()) and maybe you have other reasons for not wanting to do it this way ... if so, I guess I'll have to put on my thinking cap. But, at this point, it still sounds to me like a ModalForm would be ok and you're just missing a few things about how it works. Am I wrong?
Hi Bonnie
Although you've corrected my on my misconceptions about Modal forms (thank you) I still need the form to be visible, and that's why I can't have the form hiding after the button has been clicked.
Thanks
Kev
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