Topic: Using ShowModelessWindow instead of ShowModelessDialog in AutoCAD 2013

[cannorth]

Hello,

  I had code that would load a form using ShowModelessDialog, but it seems this no longer exists in AutoCAD 2013.  I'm trying to do this now:

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        Dim cur_form As New MainForm

        cur_form.Show()
        Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.Core.Application.ShowModelessWindow(cur_form)

   However, the argument for ShowModelessWindow doesn't accept something of type Form.  Is there a way to use my form as a window for ShowModelessWindow, or have I missed the ShowModelessDialog method in some other namespace?

Thanks,

cannorth

[gile]

Try :

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1. Autodesk.AutoCAD.ApplicationServices.Application.ShowModelessDialog(cur_form)

[cannorth]

I figured out the problem.  I had to delete and reload my references for AutoCAD 2013.  The namespace that gile posted wouldn't work until I did that.

cannorth

[gablackburn]

cannorth, thank you for mentioning this as I was having a problem where my modeless dialog box wouldn't stay on top of the active AutoCAD window, it kept moving behind the Acad window. 

I reloaded the .DLLs (and deleted some stray ones which got into my \Debug folder), and all's well now.

I wouldn't have tried that if you didn't make your comment.  Thanks.