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MDI Child Form Start Position Problem

Hi: I am having this strange problem with the start position of the MDI child Form. Here is my code for the start position, I wanted it to be the middle left of the MDI Parent Form. //show the task bar ChildForm c1 = new ChildForm(); c1.MdiParent = this; c1.StartPosition = FormStartPosition.Manual; ...

Add Control to MDIClient

hi, how can i add control to MDICLIENT in winapp please help me ...

convert a microsoft document imaging file (.mdi) in java or under linux

Hi experts, I am looking for a peace of java-code that is able to open a .mdi file (microsoft document imaging) and save it as a tiff or pdf-file. I googled a few hours but did not find any. All I know now is that .mdi is derived from tiff, but I could not find an exact format description anyway. Any linux-tool, that could do the conver...

open a .exe as a window in an mdi form?

I wanted to create a program that would allow me to open instances of a already exsiting program (i just have the exe) as windows inside (i belive its called mdi) Is that something i could do? can anyone point me to an example? Thanks ...

Encapsulate other Apps in .Net MDI

Is it possible to encapsulate other windows apps in a .Net MDI form? The source code is not available for these apps... there's a set of programs we use that would be nice to have all wrapped into one app... An easy example would be maybe having a .net mdi form app that has a calculator button. When its clicked, it opens the windows cal...

How to properly prompt the user when closing an MDI form and children?

I'm writing an IRC client, where there is an MDI parent with Server and Channel windows. When you close a Server window, it prompts the user and if they want to close it, the connection to the server is closed etc. I would like there to be only one prompt when the MDI parent is closed rather than a prompt for each server. The problem is...

C# ToolTip on MDI Client

Hi, I'm maintaining an application that shows a toolTip in certain conditions on a userControl. (When the mouse is over some area a timer starts, when it stops, and the mouse is still there, the toolTip displays a text, by calling "Show(..)". This works fine. A different applicatiion is holding this app as an MdiClient. The toolTip now o...

MDI : How to create snappable internal jframes

I am interested in creating a work place consisting of multiple jframes. I would like to implement the functionality that google dashboard uses to dock their frames into a position. I would also like to be able to snap two frames together. Does anyone have any idea how google does this, how it might be done or perhaps code of an open sou...

How would i make another application's child window into a tab? (C#)

For instance, I have an application that has a main window and then child windows inside of it. http://screenshots.rd.to/sn/e3hek/sapienfullwindow.png http://screenshots.rd.to/sn/e3hek/appscreen8.png What i need is to grab each individual child window of that application, and display them as tabs in my application, or on a panel's handle...

mdi parent form_close event wouldn't trigger mid children form_close event?

Hi: I am working on a c# project that has a mdi parent form hosting multiple mdi children form. In one of the children forms, I opened a socket and listening on the socket using tcpListner. I stop the tcpListner when user close that mdi childform. But when I close the mdi parent without close the mdi children form first, the tcpListner ...

Problems with MDI in Windows XP

I'm working on a .NET 2.0 WinForms app that uses MDI. It works perfectly when I'm testing it under Windows 7, but when I install the exact same application in Windows XP the child windows are no longer MDI windows. I can drag them out of their parent window. Does anybody have an explanation for this odd behavior? Update: It works on W...

MDI Windows and passing accelerators between a parent and a child window issue

Hi, I have MDI application with the menu strip and one child window. The child window uses accelerators (& sign before enu item name) When left alt + other key pressed MDI parent's menu strip gets activated and child window is not able to use accelerators. I have to have a menu strip within the parent window but want to disable acceler...

How can a form send a message to its owner?

I have written an MDI based application, in which the child forms are of different types. I have now come across a situation where I need one child form to send a message to another child form, telling it to update itself. The first child form is unaware of whether the second child form is being displayed at the moment. I had thought of...

Switch GUI application behavior between SDI and MDI

I currently have an SDI application that is build with Delphi 7, I want the final user to choose the type of interface between SDI and MDI at runtime. my question is how can I change the behavior of the application between SDI and MDI at runtime? Currently I know a couple of applications build with delphi that allow this: EMS SQL Manage...

How to make nested child forms in C#.net

In my windows form application I am using 10 forms.It is fine when only a parent and single child form are used at a time. But in case of multiple use of child form I am getting problem and not able to use them as child forms.They are not working as child form. Your any effort would be helpful for me. Th...

SDI vs MDI vs TDI vs ???

I'm making a small business application and I'm wondering what the best interface would be. The application itself is your run-of-the-mill service ticket tracker. There will be forms for searching tickets (with a grid for results), creating a new ticked & viewing an existing ticket, managing some administrative stuff (users, a few classi...

Detect doubleClick on mdiContainer without a child (c# winforms)

I've got a Form which is a mdiContainer. When the Form hasn't got a child, I want to capture the doubleClick event when a user doubleClicks the clientArea (same behavior as Photoshop). But when I set the doubleClick event, nothing happens. How can I achieve this? ...

MDI and WPF Ribbon

Hello, i noticed that the WPF Ribbon is bound to a XAML Usercontrol or window. Lets imagine i have a windws.xaml page with a WPF Ribbon at the top. I want to create an instance such that once i click on one of the WPF Buttons, i am taken to a different XAML UserControl or "page". How do i do this? Will this new page have the WPF Ribb...

how check mdi child already running?

please help me.. i have a project use mdi application. my question is, how to check mdi child already running or not..? please help me.. ...

How can I find the content area of a MDI parent form?

I want to know the bounds of the grey scrollable area in an MDI parent -- the area in which MDI children are placed/arranged. I don't want it to include any menu, scroll bars, or status areas -- just the grey area. this.mdiForm.ClientRectangle gives the whole interior of the Form, including scroll bars et al, which is not what I want. ...