MDI Behaviour

[Maqsood Ahmed]

Hello,
Usually when I drop some controls at the MDI Parent and later open Mdi
Child forms, I can see MDI Parent controls on the top of child forms. Is
there any way that we can display Child forms without displaying MDI
Parent controls. I know that SetWindowPos can make a child form topmost.
but It'll be on the top of all other forms too which is not a good
solution to the problem.
Any suggestions in this regard will be appreciated.

TIA

Maqsood Ahmed [MCP,C#]
Kolachi Advanced Technologies
http://www.kolachi.net

 

[Dmytro Lapshyn [MVP]]

Hi,

This article:

http://www.vbaccelerator.com/home/NET/Code/Libraries/Windows/MDI_Client_Area_Painting/article.asp

may suggest some valuable ideas for solving your problem. Actually, having
controls on the MDI parent window is quite uncommon, do you really need
this?

 

[Mark Broadbent]

If all you want is to hide them if a child form is open, then probably the
best workaround to do this would be to create a procedure
showParentControls(bool show)
and use that to show/ hide them once a child is open or all are closed.

Obviously you will probably need to keep track of the if there are any
childs open or not.

br,

Mark.