Can't Open A Non MDI Form On The Same Screen As The MDI Parent

Question

I am working with MDI forms and have an MDI Parent opening different MDI Children. On one particular MDI Child I want to open a normal window on the same screen as the Child, but when I move the MDI parent to a new screen, the normal window continuously opens on the primary screen.

I have tried a multitude of diffent things but can't seem to resolve it. Does anyone have any suggestions?

The form is about 4 levels down. So from the Parent, I have opened a Child, then from that Child I have opened another form inside the Parent, and from there I want to open another form that sits on top of everything at a specific location. I also want to be able to close this form using the 'Deactivate' method so it can't be a ShowDialog from as far as I can see.

Hope that all makes sense. Thanks

Answer 1

You must make this form a child of the parent. You can do this by using

Form.MDIParent = Me.MDIParent
Form.Show

That should do the trick.