Question about show and showDialog

Question

Ok I have a form call TestForm. It has two buttons on it call button1 and button2. When button1 is click it will do a show on form1. When button2 is click it will do a showDialog on form2. My question is if I click on button1 form1 will be display and I will still have control of TestForm and form1 since I am doing a show. However while having form1 visible still I will click on button2 to make form2 visible. I will only have control on form2 now since I am doing a showDialog. How can I also have control on form1 while form2 is open is my question. Yes I know I can do a show on form2 and it will solve this. But is there any way around this besides using show? I tried removing parents and owners and etc...Nothing seems like its working....Help please!

Johnny Nguyen · Answer

Thanks for the reply. I just open those windows in a separate thread. This seems like the only way around it.

Brandon Lewis · Answer

Theres no way around it as far as I know thats the whole purpose of the ShowDialog() method to prevent a user from accessing the rest of the application while that dialog is open. Thats why theres a separate Show() method that allows you to show multiple dialogs but still have access to each of them :)