MDI Child jiggles like a bowl full of jelly.

[Guest]

One of my continuing series of postings explaining why VSTS 2005 is not ready
for prime time and asking for help.

Create a mdi parent form. Add ToolStripPanels to all four sides. Put a flow
control menustrip in the top panel and a toolstrip below it. All very
reasonable things to do.

Now create a child form and set its initial state to maximized. (The
customer wants it that way.) Add it to the parent and show.

The child gets the chills and jiggles in size like a bowl full of jelly.
With apologies toi Clement Moore this is not a laughing matter.

Suggestions please.

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Al Christoph
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Three Bears Software, LLC
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[Chris Dunaway]

Create a mdi parent form. Add ToolStripPanels to all four sides. Put a flow
control menustrip in the top panel and a toolstrip below it. All very
reasonable things to do.

What is a ToolStripPanel? Do you mean a ToolStripContainer? And did
you create one container and set its Dock property to Fill? Or did you
create four of them? Did you put any menu items in the menustrip? Or
any items in the toolstrip?

Now create a child form and set its initial state to maximized. (The
customer wants it that way.) Add it to the parent and show.

The child gets the chills and jiggles in size like a bowl full of jelly.
With apologies toi Clement Moore this is not a laughing matter.

I can't duplicate the problem, but I'm probably missing some step.
Could you show the code where you're adding the form as an MDI Child?

Chris

 

[mollyf]

One of my continuing series of postings explaining why VSTS 2005 is not ready
for prime time and asking for help.

Create a mdi parent form. Add ToolStripPanels to all four sides. Put a flow
control menustrip in the top panel and a toolstrip below it. All very
reasonable things to do.

Now create a child form and set its initial state to maximized. (The
customer wants it that way.) Add it to the parent and show.

The child gets the chills and jiggles in size like a bowl full of jelly.
With apologies toi Clement Moore this is not a laughing matter.

Suggestions please.

Hi Al--

Have you been able to figure out a solution to this problem? I believe
that the problem I'm having may be the same thing. I have a MDI parent
form with a MenuStrip at the top and when I open several child forms,
all set to open maximized, and then go to close one of the child forms
by clicking on the "X," the forms start flicking in a way that reminds
me of an infinite loop and I can't close anything (and the program is
indicated in the task list as not responding). We were able to do this
in 2003 without any problems but in 2005. . . Any suggestions would be
helpful.

Thanks.

Molly J. Fagan