Re: Hiding all open forms

Are these non-modal dialogs?
I'm also assuming there's no central place where all forms are tracked?
On Nov 27, 2007 8:56 AM, James Berry <[email protected]> wrote:

> I actually need to hide all the forms that are currently active; show an
> application security window, and once the criteria in that window have been
> met I re-show the old forms again to continue where they left off.
>
> The issue with dialog boxes is that if I can identify that they're there
> (either with OpenForms or some other way), if I change their visibility to
> false, or send a window hide message to the form, then what actually happens
> is that DialogResult gets set to Cancel, and the value is returned to the
> calling function.  Which I need to avoid if I am going to put things back
> the way they where, which is why I wondered if there was a more imaginative
> solution than moving the windows off screen, or resizing them, or both.
>
> Best wishes
> James
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion forum for developers using Windows Forms to build apps
> and controls [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Mike Andrews
> Sent: 27 November 2007 14:52
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [DOTNET-WINFORMS] Hiding all open forms
>
> Is the specific requirement that they all hide/show at once?
> Or is it that when the "close" they don't really close you just hide them
> for later use?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
> On Nov 27, 2007 8:47 AM, James Berry <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I need to hide all open forms in my application (and be able to bring
> them
> > back later).  This is a security function for which there is an external
> > requirement, and I can do nothing to manage.
> >
> > My first test was to use the Application.OpenForms to discover all open
> > forms and then hide them.  This gives two sets of problems:
> >
> > 1. OpenForms does not include forms where ShowInTaskBar = false
> > 2. Hiding open dialog boxes causes them to close (returning
> DialogResult).
> >
> > So, any pointers?
> >
> > 1. Is there a way to identify all open forms without OpenForms (Win32
> > functions to find the handles would be enough probably, as I can always
> send
> > messages rather than using the dotnet functions)
> > 2. Is there a good alternative to hiding?  I thought of resizing to 0,0
> -
> > or moving massively off screen (eg to 10000, 10000)
> >
> > Best wishes
> > James
> >
>