This is related to my recent posts regarding copy, cut, and paste
on a toolbar editbox.

The reason that I went this route was because my efforts with
forms did not work. Maybe, I overlooked something.

In my app, the forms are all modal. In this one case, I wanted a
non-modal form. In the invoicing program, when a new client is
displayed, if the client has an invoicing note, it is to be displayed
in a separate form. The invoicing note should be ignorable. It
should be possible to select the next client without interacting with
the client note form.

To me, it seemed that if I made the client note form non-modal,
that would do it. Unfortunately, I was unable to make the non-modal
setting have an effect. The form acted modal. After some time trying
to get around this problem, I gave up on it and went to a toolbar,
which has the problem that I covered in my recent post.

How does one make a new form non-modal when the other forms are
modal? Or, what am I missing about non-modal forms?

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

To make a form non-modal you set the forms windowType property to 0
modeless.
You can do this in the property sheet or in code:

thisform.windowtype = 0

or from another object code or form as long as the scope of the
object's reference provides it.

myformname.windowtype = 0

other properties that affect the form in alwaysOnTop, alwaysOnBottom,
autoCenter. these can give the appearance of modal non-modal

i'm currious whay all your forms are modal? modal is usually for
dialogs of screen that require completion before other interaction is
allowed.


Gene Wirchenko wrote:

To make a form non-modal you set the forms windowType property to 0
modeless.
You can do this in the property sheet or in code:

thisform.windowtype = 0

or from another object code or form as long as the scope of the
object's reference provides it.

myformname.windowtype = 0

other properties that affect forms are alwaysOnTop, alwaysOnBottom,
autoCenter. these can give the appearance of modal or non-modal

i'm currious whay all your forms are modal? modal is usually for
dialogs or screens that require completion before other interaction is
allowed.

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ron o.
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