MDI help

MDI help

• Ntc

  Hi,

  I did it before showing the form. I mean setting the controlbox = false, text = "" and status to maximize. I think I even did the controlbox=false in design time...

   

  cheers,

  Paul June A. Domag

  
  
  

• Greg Fodor

  You will also want to set the forms icon property = nothing
  
  

• dB.

  I tried your suggestion too, and it didn't seem to help.  It takes away the control box before it's maximized.  But when maximixed, the control box still re-appears in the mdi container window.
  
  I also tried setting the MaxButton and MinButton to False, and tried setting the form with no border.  All this doesn't work.  Not that it was my question, but i'd also like to get this answer, because i tried solving this for about 1 hour before i gave up.
  
  Dustin.
  
  
  

• er824

  Paul,
  
  I'm also using VS2005 (beta2)!  Please send me the sample project.  webmaster@accs.net.  Thanks again!
  
  

• Sudheer_CV

  Ah hah.  I did not set my Text to blank.  I'll give that a try!  Thanks.
  
  

• PamelaS

  Hi,

  This is my code (in C#, although I think theres no difference):

     Form1 childForm = new Form1();
     childForm.Text = "";
     childForm.ControlBox = false;
     childForm.WindowState = FormWindowState.Maximized;
     childForm.MdiParent = this;
     childForm.Show();
  

  Hmmm, it works fine on me. I'm calling this routine in a toolstrip button. If you want I'll send you a copy of the project.

  BTW, im using VS2005

   

  cheers,

  Paul June A. Domag

  
  
  

• AMJZA

  For some reason I'm sitll getting an extra bar with a default icon on it! argh.
  
  

  Dim b As New form1 b.Text = "" b.ControlBox = False b.WindowState = FormWindowState.Maximized b.Icon = Nothing b.MdiParent = Me.ParentForm b.Show()

  
  
  

• le_montmartre

  Hi,

  Just set the child form's ControlBox to false, Text to blank so that the header of the child form would be gone. Finally, when displaying the childform on the MDI, it should be maximized.

  The only problem I see here is that there would be no way for the user to restore the child form...

   

  cheers,

  Paul June A. Domag

  
  
  

• Justin-M

  Hi,

  I forgot to mention that I handled the SizeChanged event of my child form. Here's the code:

     if (this.WindowState == FormWindowState.Maximized) {
      this.FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyle.None;
     } else {
      this.FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyle.Sizable;
     }
  

  Check your mail. I already sent it...

   

  cheers,

  Paul June A. Domag

  
  
  
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