Controls on MDI Parent Form

[Guest]

My MDI Parent form has controls on it that only need
to be shown on this form. But when I open up child
forms during run time, these parent form controls are
visible on the child form as well. Is there a way for me
to only have these forms visible on the mdi parent form
and not on the child forms??

Thanks,
Parveen

 

[Jared]

Parveen,
It's not an inherited form you're talking about is it? What do you mean by
the controls are visible on the child forms? A MDI form should used as a
container control (IMHO), not to perform work. Can you give us some more
information please.

 

[Jared]

What do you mean they carry over? You have a text box on the MDI parent, and
it show up on the child form, if you resize the child form, move it around,
the textbox moves around with it?

I'm not saying it isn't possible, I just stated that is is not good
practice, take for example older version of Microsoft Word, you couldn't
write a letter in the main application, you had to create a new document and
each document was it's own child form. The main form provided some common
functionally that was used by the child forms like formatting the text,
navigation, toolbars, menus, etc. Thats why I said it should be used as a
container, and not to perform work.
Jared