Deactivating a form...

[Shy Agam]

Hello experts, An application I'm currently developing pops-up reminder windows. Being a popup window, it should not "steal" the focus, as it can be unpleasent to the user if he's in the middle of something. I've tried overriding the ShowWithoutActivation property and returning true, but the form still gets focused. My guess is that a LinkLabel control I have on the form is receiving focus, thus having the form receive focus even when the ShowWithoutActivation property has returned true. How can I deactivate the form? Thanks in advance, Shy.

[Paul Conrad]

Have you tried just using the Hide method?

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[il_masacratore]

Maybe you're using ShowDialog instead of simply show...

[Shy Agam]

Correct. I did use ShowDialog(). However, even using Show() it still steals the focus.

[Shy Agam]

I don't want to hide the form... I want it to appear on top, but not to steal focus.

[Shy Agam]

Problem solved! It appears that because I set TopMost to true, the ShowWithoutActivation property became useless. When I used the TopLevel property instead, it worked. Regards, Shy.

[il_masacratore]

Ok. Why you don't try to pass the parent form to the constructor of the new modal form and then call the Activate method when the new form is shown? An alternative is when you call show, a line below return the focus to any control of the form. If the previous alternative don't like you try to save the ActiveControl before open in a var and after open the new form, in the Show next line call var.Focus(). Try any of this three alternative.

[Paul Conrad]

Good for you. I was going to mention the setting of TopMost, but you figured it out before I got up this morning :)

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