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[.net] MDI issues

Started by Cacks Dec 27, 2006 at 4:16 PM 3 replies 650+ views

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Dec 27, 2006 at 4:16 PM

Hi Guys, I have several problems using MDI & wondering if you can tell me how to solve them?: 1. I don't want to be able to move the subforms. I position them when I initialise the parent form. 2. I don't want to be able to resize the subforms, except for maximising them. 3. I don't want to be able to close the subforms. 4. I want to disable scrolling on the parent form. Thanks for any help

ernow

Dec 28, 2006 at 7:15 AM

Are you sure you want MDI :) ?

Perhaps you should take a look at other solutions not only because what you want requires a lot of hacking in MDI but also because users will probably not understand why a MDI app doesn't work like a regular MDI app...

Perhaps I am wrong... But it feels a bit like: I am using this screwdriver to fasten this screw but I only want to make hammering motions...

Perhaps you could tell us a little bit more and we might have some alternative solutions to you problem.

Cheers

Machaira

Dec 28, 2006 at 9:09 PM

What ernow said. What you're describing isn't an MDI app. I'd think an app that looked MDI that did this was broken. [grin]

Cacks

Dec 28, 2006 at 10:57 PM

Thanks for the advise guys,

I'm making a modelling program. I wanted to have 4 rendering sub forms with menubars & wanted to be able to maximise one of the rendering Forms.

I've now just placed 4 panels inside the main form and am going to write code to do the things I mentioned.

Cheers.

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