I asked a question yesterday about opening a modal form from a modeless
one.  The last response I got was from Mark Cashman of Team B.

I then asked how this could be accomplished.
Does ANYONE know how to do this or am I the first person to try it?

Thanks
Chris

Most people recommend waiting 3 days to re-post in these groups.  I
doubt that anyone had time to download your attachments, which are
discouraged in these newsgroups, I think out of consideration to
foreign users with expensive internet connections.  But your question
was clear enough without the example.  It's an unusual request, and I
doubt that the real experts who frequent this group would do all of
the coding necessary to achieve it, so you're stuck with *me*.  I
think a redesign might eliminate the need to do what you ask.  But
anything can be done in BCB...

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Harold Howe has a lot of information on minimizing applications and
forms.  I think what you need might be here:
http://www.bcbdev.com/faqs.htm

This also seems relevant:
http://www.mers.com/MERLIST/BORLAND/PUBLIC/CPPBUILDER/LANGUAGE/66567.H
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You can do further searches on that engine.

You are in the right newsgroup.  Unfortunately, the "first" person to
try it was in the wrong one:

borland.public.cppbuilder.language
From: Tsvetozar / Fast Fashion
Subject: Modal Dialogs question
Date: Thursday, March 23, 2000 9:40 AM
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Sorry, I also had a more concrete suggestion:

If you intercept the minimization message for the second non-modal
form, you could minimize the sort-of-modal dialog there, making them
disappear together.  You'd have to intercept the restore of either to
restore both.  That's why I mentioned the old posting about
intercepting the MINIMIZE message.

I wonder whether it would be sufficient to delete the minimize box
from the caption of both forms--but maybe you want the user to be able
to set them aside.
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I apologize I was unaware of the three day recommendation.  From
experience either someone posts replies fairly quickly or not at all.  I
will wait longer in the future.

Chris