Form disappears when when msgbox is displayed? [modified]Can any one Answer this??????????

[mdrizwan_1]

I'm having a problem when using a msgbox on a second loaded form. I have two forms ... frmMain (default) and frmSecondary. When the program is run, frmSecondary will eventually be loaded and displayed as the active window (both are maximized, frmMain is still loaded in the background). Now, when a msgbox is used to advise the user of some occurence on frmSecondary, the frmSecondary disappears and frmMain suddenly appears behind the msgbox. Once the msgbox is clicked(i.e.,closed) the frmMain disappears (usually),and again reveal the frmSecondary. I would be grateful if someone could tell me why this is occurring. Note both the forms are border Style is set to None. Thank you.

modified on Friday, January 8, 2010 5:06 AM

[Lost User]

Try

MessageBox.Show(frmSecondary, "Hello World");

Good luck :)

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[mdrizwan_1]

Hello Eddy Vluggen, Its Vb6 application.

[Tom Deketelaere]

In what form do you call the messagebox? Is frmsecondary shown modal or not?

[mdrizwan_1]

Tom Deketelaere Its modaless form . Its bcoz i have set form border style to none.So i just wanna know why is causing problem with borderless form.

[Lost User]

I guess that the MsgBox is a form without a parent, and the MsgBox[^] method of VB6 doesn't have a parameter to set that. Without a parent, focus will be returned to the application, giving it's mainform the focus. Alternatively, you can call the MessageBoxA method from User32;

Private Declare Function MessageBox Lib "user32" Alias "MessageBoxA" ( _
ByVal hWnd As Long, _
ByVal lpText As String, _
ByVal lpCaption As String, _
ByVal wType As Long) As Long

That goes into a module, and you can call it like this;

MessageBox Me.hWnd, _
"Caption", _
"Text goes here", _
vbExclamation

Good luck :)

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