Detect And Set The Form Size In The Child And MDIParent Forms?
Feb 5, 2012
Anybody know a way to detect and set the form size in the child and MDIParent forms?
I'm having all kinds of problems from scroll bars popping up, to can't get the form to fill the parent. Pretty sure I have tried every possible combination in the forms properties 10 times.
I'm really getting tired of beating myself against this. Anybody seen a good tutorial on the finer points of MDIparent / MDI Child page size, etc.
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Mar 20, 2012
I have this function
Private Sub createChildForm(ByVal winForm As Form)
'Take a form and set app as its parent form
winForm.MdiParent = Me
winForm.Show()
End Sub
When some one wants to view the "About" form, it's called like this:
createChildForm(New f_about)
But my function doesn't stop them from creating an unlimited number of about windows and I need to put that limit to one form.
For example, I will have a login screen, but I don't want them logging in over and over again in different accounts because my subroutine doesn't stop a form from being created/opened more than once.
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Aug 22, 2009
Has anyone had any luck with having different window states with multiple open child forms?for example if you have a single child form opened and say it is maximized.then open a second child form as normal, the first form will then be set to normal.all the open child forms will mimic the newly opened forms state.and i believe they will mimic when making some changes to one forms state.the others will follow.i have not had luck keeping this from happening in most situations.
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Dec 14, 2010
having different window states with multiple open child forms? for example if you have a single child form opened and say it is maximized. then open a second child form as normal, the first form will then be set to normal. all the open child forms will mimic the newly opened forms state. and i believe they will mimic when making some changes to one forms state. the others will follow.
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Sep 17, 2010
I want a set of child forms to keep their relative sizes and locations to their parent form when parent form is resized. So if one child form is opened and covers the lower right quadrant.. it will remain a quadrant for whatever resize is done on parent form.
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Nov 20, 2010
i have a program with MDI parent and child. initially, the program will call a child e.g. ChildMain. on this child form, 2 processes are run. the 2nd is ran on a backgroundworker. the backgroundworkder in created through code. the process in the background worker is to create another childform but i'm having problem setting the MDIParent of this child form since VS is saying some sort of cross-thread issue.
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Sep 16, 2009
i am asking about using the progress bar into the status bar to move when i load any child form inside the MDIParent form.
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Feb 23, 2010
In VB 2008, I have a Parent form with a combo box on it. There is a child form also with a combo box on it. I want to be able to change the values on the child form based on what the user selected from the main form. The user launches the child form from a toolbar on the Parent form. The following code is run:
[Code]...
What I want to do is if the Parent's combo box has "Red", "Blue", "Green" values and the user selects "Green", the child form's combo box(With the same values) will also change to "Green". (I do not need to change the Parent form if the child form changes.) I've tried changing the Child's combobox from the combobox's change event on the Parent form, and the code runs, but nothing changes on the child form.
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Jun 26, 2011
I am having a toolstrip in the mdi form which contains save, update delete and clear buttons. The child form is having save, update, delete and clear as public sub routines , and client form will not have any standard buttons, I will click the respective button in the parent tool window which should call the child forms function.
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Jun 12, 2012
I have an MDI windows form setup. On load it sets the child form(frmMainData) and opens it.
I have a progress bar on my child form that I wish to show(set to visible = false in design)
I have menu strip on my parent form.
For simplicity I have just set the command against one of the menustrip options to do the following[code]...
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Aug 13, 2010
I need a way to detect when a child form has been closed. I've created an MdiWindowList thing (but in the form of a toolbar with buttons, similarly to the Windows taskbar), and everything works great, but the method I have for refreshing the taskbar's windows has to be called when a child form closes. I've trying calling the method from the child's Form_Closing event, but there's a slight lag so whenever there's more than 1 window open the first one gets skipped (then the others close properly, since the taskbar is being refreshed first before the form actually closes).
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Jan 2, 2010
I'm Using VB.NEt 2005.... the Problem is...If I close Mdiparent When i've opened many MdiChild Forms All Forms Also Closed.I Want that when MdiChild Forms opened if i Press Close Button of MdiParent Form there Should be a Msg that "First Close MdiChild Forms " then Close Mdi Parent.
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Mar 15, 2012
I am developing a application where I have 1 parent from (windowstate of Parent from is set to Maximized) and 2 child forms. In my Parent form I have a menustrip with following code to activate child -
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Sep 24, 2009
If I have form say sized 1300 x 800, I would like to proportionally size the form to the computers screen size. I can get it to size to the screen size, but it is not proportional
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Nov 21, 2009
Is there a way to control the size of a minimized MDI form. When I minimize a child form, it apprears at the bottom with the form buttons (minimize, restore and maximize) and just about 2 or 3 characters of the Title Text. I would like to have more of the title text showing so the user can figure out what window he wants to restore if he has a couple of them minimized. If not that, is there a way to have a "tooltip" popup when I move the mouse over the minimized form.
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Mar 17, 2012
I have an outlook application, whenever the user receive a new mail I show him a form and some controls
The user needs to insert information and close the form. Sometimes the user is not near his machine so whenever there is a new mail I am adding new controls and modify the child size.
It has been successful using the Form.show() method but not in showdialog() i cant add controls and change the form size can someone please help on the subject?
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Sep 17, 2011
I have a windows form that contains a table layout panel extending the whole form, the size of this table layout panel may change at run time according to it's content, how can I make it's parent form automatically take its size,
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Apr 20, 2011
When I open my child form,
frm_Analogs.ShowDialog()
It opens up the new form, but now I can not interact with my main form. It will not accept focus or allow me to interact with it.
Do I need to change the form type?
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Jan 3, 2012
I have about 60 Child forms
Each have a variable with same name.
In Main form I want to set the value of the variable of the active child.
One way of doing that is like
Select Case Me.ActiveMdiChild.Name
Case "formName"
frmformName.Variable=0
I donot want to do that as it involves writing many cases and I may miss some.
Is there some other way of doing it .
I tried
Dim O as Object = Me.ActiveMdiChil
O.VariableName= 0
and its various variants but its not working
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Oct 16, 2009
I try codes and search around but still can't find it.
That when I click to add new child form, the newest child form always appear after the old one[code]....
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May 28, 2011
how to get all the active mdi child in an application..it is possible to work? me.ActiveMdiChild.Name
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Apr 7, 2011
When I click on Borrow Book(s) from Transaction menu it should open frmborrow.vb
Also to it should do the same to rest of the menu(s)......
What should i write in the click event for Borrow Books from Menustrip menu
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Dec 22, 2010
When my application first loads the parent opens and I select my child form from toolstrip:
'In parent open the form when option is clicked
Public Sub Showfrmitemreview(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) Handles itemreivewStripMenuItemA.Click, itemreviewStripMenuItemB.Click
[Code]....
Nothing happens I don't even get an error message. I've played around with the code numerous times and the only thing that worked was to have it open outside of the parent which I do not want to happen.
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Aug 20, 2009
I'm trying to call a method defined within a child form from the menu strip of the parent form when the child form is active.
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Feb 15, 2011
I have a MDI Parent Form and some Child forms.I have some controls on MDI Parent form but as i open child form all the controls of MDI Parent form display in child forms...I m stuck with my application
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Feb 12, 2010
i use a picture control in mdi form .. but when i load child froms then mdi form picture are also show in front of child form...
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Dec 15, 2011
wen i open mdi through the login form, the forms inside the mdi child forms dont seem to execute.
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Jan 5, 2012
I'm writing an MDI app in vb.net vs2010. The MDI form has the default MDIMenustrip menu with several menu items. Each has some subitems. None of the child forms have a menustrip defined. I thought it would be easy to call a public subroutine in the MDI that would disable or enable the MDIMenustrip items. If I execute the routine from the MDI form, the menu items disable/enable just fine. THe problem I have is when I call the routine from a child form. How can I control the MDI menu from a child form?
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Feb 13, 2009
I have created a parent form and 2 child forms. Each of the forms have menustrips. When i run the application the menu strip appears on the parent form but not on the child forms. I have the menu strip set to visable.
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Sep 12, 2011
I thought this would be easy but for some reason it's giving me a rough time. I have a windows form with three equal size panels on it. Each panel takes up about 1/3 of the window width, less some inter-panel spacing.
The effect I want is if the user stretches or shrinks the form the panels maintain their relative 1/3 width and spacing, similar to how divs on an html page would size as the browser window is sized.
So I anchored the left panel to left, top and bottom, the center panel to top and bottom, and the right panel to top, bottom and right. This works fine in keeping the left and right panel anchored to their respective sides, and all panels now stretch with a form height change.
So in form resize I adjust the width of each panel to form.width/3. As expected this is close but does not account for the inter-panel margins I want to preserve and the form border width.
I played around with various constants and noting I do gives me the desired effect.I'm sure there is a pretty straight forward solution to this but I can't seem to find it.
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