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Restrict to open same window multiple times in autocad and inventor

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 08:35:10 GMT

How to restrict to open same window multiple times in autocad and inventor?

The scenario is when any window in autocad or inventor is opened then if we again try to open the same window then it will get opened and multiple same window get displayed.

So i want to restrict to open a window if the window is already opened.

Is there any solution for this?

Here is the code to open a window.

code to open a window

Re: Restrict to open same window multiple times in autocad and inventor

_gile — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 08:55:34 GMT

Hi,

You should either use a modal dialog or, if you need a modelss UI, use a PaletteSet.

Re: Restrict to open same window multiple times in autocad and inventor

m.cicognani — Wed, 02 Jan 2019 09:56:25 GMT

Something like this?

            // check if another window of the same type is already open
            foreach (System.Windows.Forms.Form f in System.Windows.Forms.Application.OpenForms)
            {
                if (f is frmBatchManager)
                {
                    if (f.WindowState != System.Windows.Forms.FormWindowState.Normal) f.WindowState = System.Windows.Forms.FormWindowState.Normal;

                    f.BringToFront();
                    return;
                }
            }

            // Not found, open a new modeless window
            frmBatchManager dlg = new frmBatchManager();
            Application.ShowModelessDialog(dlg);