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Essam Fahmy
Essam Fahmy

Reputation: 2255

How to keep the focus on one form while opening other?

I have form that takes few seconds to load and open, i need the other form (Form Represents "Please Wait ...") to be focused and stable while opening the main form.

I close the please wait form after 2 secs BUT it doesn't take the general focus.

This is the code i use to open the two forms :

        LoadingPage load = new LoadingPage();
        load.Show();

        load.TopMost = true;

        //
        string contractorType = "importer";

        //
        customersPage obj = new customersPage(this, contractorType);
        obj.MdiParent = homeObj;
        obj.Show();

Please, any idea ?

thanks,

Upvotes: 0

Views: 98

Answers (1)

Tim
Tim

Reputation: 6060

That may be behaving funny because customerPage is an MDI child. Have you considered making LoadingPage modal? You would of course have to load your customerPage from events within LoadingPage (e.g. Form_Load or a 100ms timer callback, etc.,) because the call to ShowModal will block until LoadingPage closes.

The idea is that if LoadingPage is modal, then no other window in the same thread can take focus from it.

Upvotes: 1

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