When I have two MDI Child forms opened, it is difficult to visually see the active form versus the non-active form.I would like to have the Active Form stand out more, say a yellow border.
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It has to be a simple line of code but I do not know how to construct it. Using VB 2010 Express, I have a MDI parent form and many child forms. I want the parent form to determine what child form is active and load data into the RichTextBox1 on the child form. Each Child form has a RichTextBox1. The parent form gets its data by loading a file.
I am close to a solution but just can't get there. You will see in the code below, if I make a direct reference to a specific child form, it works great. What I want to do is to use the Active Form function to determine which form to write to. I have looked at the MS tutorial which gets me close.
Private
Sub OpenToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender
As System.Object,
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I want to get the contents of the active child MDI form, how do you do that? Here's what I did to create a child form.
childForm += 1
If childForm > UBound(childForms) Then
ReDim childForms(childForm)
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So say I want to get the text from an active form. How can I get the active form id so I can just do this?
childforms(childform).textbox1.text
I just starting to use MDI form. I can show the child MDI form, without any problem. My problem is that I want to close the child form also from the parent menu bar. This is my code:
Private Sub CloseToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles CloseToolStripMenuItem.Click
Dim frmActive As Form = Me.ActivateMdiChild
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how to get all the active mdi child in an application..it is possible to work? me.ActiveMdiChild.Name
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How can I make the form become the active most foreground window? I've tried various functions that I can think of but no luck yet. Tried searching with various queries to try and find the right wording but no luck.I'm new to Visual Basic - only started a couple hours ago.Probably something simple but I can't seem to find the correct function or anything.I have the form/window open, and then I overlap said form with a window of another application. When I double-click my app's tray icon, I want my window to become the active window, bringing it to the front, but can't figure out how
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For example, I want TabControl2 to be shown at form load.
TabControl2.focus isn't working.
I'm tired of how to make my application stand-alone exe. I have created a small application console using C# in visual studio 2010, and I want to make it run on other computers with out having to install .net on that machines. and also make it just like notepad.exe with just click and it will run. I've read a lot of articles talking about netz or ILmerge.exe or mono which is so difficult to me to understand. and another question is how to know how many .net files or dll s that my application needs?
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How do i compile my VB code AND the resources together into a stand-alone executable that only requires the .net framework to be installed?I have already tried to google this issue, however every answer I find has nothing to do with my initial question..
I wanted to know how I can make a stand alone exe without making the user install the application. So that the program can be ran from a disk or flash drive. Currently I can run it just fine on the PCs, I'm developing it on. But when I take it to another, that has the targeted framework, it crashes.
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i create StudentForm as my mdi child form, what i suppose to do to let user unable to move my mdi child form to other location? i want it to be static location
Private Sub StudentToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles StudentToolStripMenuItem.Click
StudentForm.Show()
StudentForm.MdiParent = Me
End Sub
How could i make sure that only one instance of a child form is loaded in my application.
View 3 RepliesI am working on my final project and I need to have 1 MDI Form. For the life of me I cannot figure out what to do. My book mentions doing this:
Dim childForm as New ChildFormClass()
childForm.MdiParent = parentForm
childForm.Show()
When I put that in the Parent form it doesn't like the ChildFormClass(). I wouldn't think it would be too hard to make a parent child relationship? I have tried looking for the MdiList property but I cannot seem to find it. I think I need to have some menu items to have a child form. If there is a way to have an MDI form without that I would like that. Does anyone know a good tutorial that explains creating MDI forms well, and what to do/put in the parent and child forms code?
I have a form that has 35 checkboxes. I would like to change the font to bold if the box is checked to make it stand out in the document.
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View 5 RepliesI have a MenuStrip with File > New, Open, Save, Exit located in a parent form, and a RichTextBox located in a child form.The problem I'm running into is concerned with the destination of the file elected from "Open" and the save.When a user selects their file from "Open", I need it to open the child form and put the text into the RichTextBox.I also need the program to be able to "Save" from a child form, whether it's been brought up via "New" or "Open".
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when i click button1 on form1=====> form2.showdialog()
then click button 1 on form2 =====> form3.showdialog
then click button 1 on form 3 =====>
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I'm creating an application that uses an MDI container to create a sort of desktop style for my form with a group of icons docked to the left hand side. The rest of the form is the desktop area that I want all windows to open in.If I use the standard File-New option that is provided by VB as a default for the MDI container this works fine and a child window is loaded.If I use similar code from one of the icons this also works fine.y problem is that one of my child forms is a search panel and when I double click on one of the results I want a window to open, but as an MDI child. However, this doesnt happen. When I open the window it opens as a completely separate window and isn't docked within the MDI parent. It also appears on the task bar as a separate application.
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