Harlan Messinger wrote:
> I've set up a Windows app in C# for working with a type of document I've
> designed. When I use my app's File | Open menu item, after presenting
> the Open Files dialog it opens my selected file in a new window, which
> is of the same type as the app's main window.
>
> Now, when I have several documents open, as in Microsoft Word, I should
> be able to close any one of them without the app shutting down until all
> the document windows have been closed. And this is what happens--except
> when I close the original window. Doing that, of course, shuts down the
> application, since this is the window referenced in the application's
> message loop.
>
> How do I structure the application so that it opens a window initially,
> as Word does, but without giving that one window sole control over the
> application?

"Harlan Messinger" <hmessinger.removethis@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> I've set up a Windows app in C# for working with a type of document I've
> designed. When I use my app's File | Open menu item, after presenting the
> Open Files dialog it opens my selected file in a new window, which is of
> the same type as the app's main window.
>
> Now, when I have several documents open, as in Microsoft Word, I should be
> able to close any one of them without the app shutting down until all the
> document windows have been closed. And this is what happens--except when I
> close the original window. Doing that, of course, shuts down the
> application, since this is the window referenced in the application's
> message loop.
>
> How do I structure the application so that it opens a window initially, as
> Word does, but without giving that one window sole control over the
> application?