Re: Modal Form Causes Task Switcher Icon to Disappear

Hi all,

Thanks for your replies. I'm going to throw away the etiquette on
quoting questions... and answer them en masse. My apologies for doing
this. :)

1) The application was developed by a team of developers who ALL have
left (for greener pastures).

2) I created a three form set-up. The application had a MDI Form with
one child form (to mimick the actual application which makes extensive
use of a MDI Form. I avoid MDI Forms...but I got to go with the cards
that have been dealt.). The Child Form has a command button that opens
up Form2 (which is not a child MDI form) in vbModal mode.

I attached an icon to the MDI Form from one of the cursors in the
c:\Winxxx\cursors directory. Built an executable.

Loaded up the executable. Did an ALT+TAB. Lo and behold! The icon
for that app I just created -- baring itself in its full glory on the
ALT+TAB bar. I then clicked on the command button on the child form to
load up the modal Form2.

Guess what? The icon from ALT+TAB did a proverbial vanishing rabbit
from the magician's hat. It's gone. Only after I closed the modal
form did the rabbit decide to come back. The ShowInTaskbar property
for all forms (except MDI) was set to True.

This is an issue that I need to dig some more on. That reminder dialog
pop-up comes up whenever and when it does, the app is "lost."

Thanks again to all who replied.
Todd

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