Hi i am stuck in MDIform with panel control.
I have one panel control Docked (fill) to parent MDI form. When i try opening new child form with menu click event the child form doesn't show up in MDI container.
After debugging few times, i set the visible property of panel control to false, the child form shows up now.
what is causing this? is there any way that i can leave panel control as docked (fill) inside MDI container form and show the child form on top of that panel?
MDI child windows are always shown as a child of the MDI client area. The dark gray window in an MDI parent. You cannot cover this up with a docked panel, the child windows will show behind the panel. Obviously not visible. You must leave room for the client area, a hard requirement.
After the call to the Show method for the MDI child form, add the childForm.BringToFront() statement. The child form will show in front of the parent form controls.
It might be, that the panel control is shown in front of the MDI child. Try to move the MDI child to the foreground or the panel to the background.
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I have a MDI parent form as the main window of my application. Within this Form I also have two other Control a Panel and a StatusStrip which are docked to the Right and Bottom respectively.
My issue is that the StatusStrip does not "fill" the entire bottom of the Form. It is stopped by the Panel on the right.
I would have figured by the DockStyle graphic in the properties window of Visual Studio that the Bottom docked Control would fill the entire bottom of the Form.
Is there a way to have the StatusStrip fill the entire bottom and have the Panel docked to the Right while still maintaining the MDI area? (undocked controls in the MDI area allow windows to be "hidden" behind them).
The order matters when the controls are placed on the form. To correct that, you can use the Bring-To-Front and Send-To-Back methods.
While in the designer, right mouse-click the StatusStrip control and select the Send-To-Back option, or alternatively, select the panel control, and select the Bring-To-Front option.
I have a MDI Parent Form 1 and an MDI Child Form 2
The Form 2 has a MinimumSize = new System.Drawing.Size(568, 453); set.
And as long as the MDI Child is not maximized everything works fine(the MDI Parent shows scrollbars).
As soon as I maximize the MDI Child, the scrollbars disappear and i cannot access the rest of the Controls on the Form 2 in the lower Right Corner(the MDI Parent doesnt show Scrollbars).
I couldn't find any solution for this problem, i would be glad for any help or pointers. I would even be open for an other approach.
The MDI parent never shows scroll bars if the MDI children are maximized, as then technically no MDI child leaves the MDI client area (either no or all MDI children are maximized).
If you need automatic scrolling for maximized MDI children, you need to configure your MDI children to perform auto scrolling, too.
How can I make controls of MDI parent not hide the maximized MDI child when an it is maximized/resized/moved, just like ToolStrip does?
I can manually re-size/move the child window when it's not maximized so its bounds are restricted to a certain area, but when it's maximized there's nothing I an do.
EDIT: The point is, how to make parent control (violet) act like toolstrip (orange)
I have created a MDI form and also a Child form. However my MDI form contains a ribbon menu docked in top, sidebar docked in left and a Panel container docked to be filled.
Now when i am invoking the child form, it gets shown behind all theses MDI docked controls.
And when after showing the child form if i make the panel_container1.visible = false the child form gets shown at that place.
I don't want to keep other controls visibility set to false and then again to true.
Is there any way that automatically the child form comes on the top of all these docked items?
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;
c1.Location = new Point(0, this.Height/2);
Strange thing is every time I start my Mdi parent form, the vertical scrollbar show up
and the mdi child form is position lower than half of the MDI parent form's height.
Then if I scroll the scroll bar down to see the whole mdi child form, the scrollbar disappear.
After this point, no matter how I change the size of the mdi parent form, the scrollbar will
not show up again.
Does Anybody knows Why?
Also, I was wondering if it is possible to hide a mdi child form with only a handle-like control left
in the mdi parent form. If the user click that handle, then the form show up again. If the user
click somewhere else, the form hide. It is kind of like Window taskbar.
I tried to use form.hide(), but it hides the whole mdi child form.
Thanks
Alex
Is is possible that your calculation is taking into account the windows bar at the top.
You can have a look at PointToClient or PointToScreen
you sholud minuse child form height and width like this
c1.Location = new Point(0, (this.Height - c1.Height)/2);