MsgBox won't show in front of TopMost form

[B2Ben]

As my profile states, I use VS.NET 2005 at home, but I'm working on an App at work using VS.NET 2003...

Anyway... I just added an option to my app to make my main window the topmost window (form1.topmost = true), which works well and is very useful in my application.

However, now my MsgBox'es are hidden behind my main (topmost) form. I can't use the MsgBox'es... all I can do is press Escape to close them. Is there any easy way around this?

If not, would I need to write my own MsgBox function to override the normal one? If so, how would I override a normal function?

Any thoughts? ...thanks in advance

 

[B2Ben]

Clarification... it appears this is only happening with my inputboxes, not MsgBoxes... sorry for the mis-statement

 

[cjard]

You use inputboxes? Amazing.. I dont think, in 6 years, I ever have!

There are plenty of InputBox classes out there to replace the default one, but maybe you can consider how to design your app ithout them?

 

[B2Ben]

hehe... yes. Only as a temporary solution... I've already built a custom form to get the input I needed. But it just seemed odd that something as basic as an inputbox wouldn't work over a TopMost form.

 

[cjard]

Its implemented by the visualbasic.net team at micirosft, and put into the Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace for legacy compatibility reasons mainly.. Its not actually a core feature of the framework and I think the msot you could do (seeing as the form that implements it isnt marked as TopMost itself?) is to make your form TopMost = false BEFORE you show it, and back again after.. it will stop it being irretrievably buried beneath yours