I am having trouble with multiple forms in my applications, i dont mean mdi. i can create new forms fine, but i want is to stop a user focusing on the main form untill they close the other form, i have tried everything i can with this but i just cant get it right, any answers?

Have you tried opening the form modally (i.e. form.show 1)?

Yehuda

i dont know what you mean, i only started reading on vb 2 days ago, and my book isnt very in-depth.
i have tried methods like setting the seconds forms visible property to true when a user presses a command button, then disabling the main form window, when its closed again, re enabling it, but it doesnt reenable

I tried that modal thing you said, it worked! Thanks! But does anyone have details on using it, like where and when?

Ah OK. You can set a form as modal. This means that nothing will continue until that form is unloaded. To do this use the following code (assume form1 is the name of my form).

Load form1 'loads the form
form1.show 1 'shows the form modally
unload form1 'unloads the form

Yehuda