MDI Forms... Some unusual request...

[Rutko]

Hi

Could I somehow make an MDI Child form in .NET but to have it displayed as
child in another application. I'll try to elaborate. I have application in
Visual FoxPro. In C# I made a little class and use it over COM Interop in
VFP.

Here is the example in C#.....

using System;
using System.Windows.Form;

namespace dotNET
{
public class MyVFPdotNETwrapper
{
private dotNET.Form1 f = null;

public MyVFPdotNETwrapper()
{
this.f = new dotNET.Form1();
}

public void ShowForm()
{
f.Show();
}

......
}
}

And I use it in VFP like this...
dotNetFormWrapper = createobject("dotNET.MyVFPdotNETwrapper)
dotNetFormWrapper.Show()

And it works. Form is displayed, I can use all .NET stuff from VFP, and over
VFP COM I can execute some of my procedures in original VFP application from
..NET. I was wondering can I make that form somehow a child form of my VFP
application. I know it isn't likely it can be done but it would be great.
I'm interested in your ideas and possible solutions (if there is any).

Thx

[Dmitriy Lapshin [C# / .NET MVP]]

Hi,

What you can probably do is extending the Show method to accept the HWND of
the parent window. Then, when you create a form in your .NET wrapper, use
the passed window handle to make the form being created a child of the VFP
main form.

I'm afraid you'll have to resort to plain WinAPI (namely SetParent) to
establish the parent-child relationship.

--
Sincerely,
Dmitriy Lapshin [C# / .NET MVP]
Bring the power of unit testing to the VS .NET IDE today!
http://www.x-unity.net/teststudio.aspx

"Rutko" <ru********@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:uo**************@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...

Hi

Could I somehow make an MDI Child form in .NET but to have it displayed as
child in another application. I'll try to elaborate. I have application in
Visual FoxPro. In C# I made a little class and use it over COM Interop in
VFP.

Here is the example in C#.....

using System;
using System.Windows.Form;

namespace dotNET
{
public class MyVFPdotNETwrapper
{
private dotNET.Form1 f = null;

public MyVFPdotNETwrapper()
{
this.f = new dotNET.Form1();
}

public void ShowForm()
{
f.Show();
}

......
}
}

And I use it in VFP like this...
dotNetFormWrapper = createobject("dotNET.MyVFPdotNETwrapper)
dotNetFormWrapper.Show()

And it works. Form is displayed, I can use all .NET stuff from VFP, and
over VFP COM I can execute some of my procedures in original VFP
application from .NET. I was wondering can I make that form somehow a
child form of my VFP application. I know it isn't likely it can be done
but it would be great. I'm interested in your ideas and possible solutions
(if there is any).

Thx

[Rutko]

It works perfectly. Thx.

"Dmitriy Lapshin [C# / .NET MVP]" <x-****@no-spam-please.hotpop.com> wrote
in message news:O%***************@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...

Hi,

What you can probably do is extending the Show method to accept the HWND
of the parent window. Then, when you create a form in your .NET wrapper,
use the passed window handle to make the form being created a child of the
VFP main form.

I'm afraid you'll have to resort to plain WinAPI (namely SetParent) to
establish the parent-child relationship.

--
Sincerely,
Dmitriy Lapshin [C# / .NET MVP]
Bring the power of unit testing to the VS .NET IDE today!
http://www.x-unity.net/teststudio.aspx

"Rutko" <ru********@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:uo**************@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...

Hi

Could I somehow make an MDI Child form in .NET but to have it displayed
as child in another application. I'll try to elaborate. I have
application in Visual FoxPro. In C# I made a little class and use it over
COM Interop in VFP.

Here is the example in C#.....

using System;
using System.Windows.Form;

namespace dotNET
{
public class MyVFPdotNETwrapper
{
private dotNET.Form1 f = null;

public MyVFPdotNETwrapper()
{
this.f = new dotNET.Form1();
}

public void ShowForm()
{
f.Show();
}

......
}
}

And I use it in VFP like this...
dotNetFormWrapper = createobject("dotNET.MyVFPdotNETwrapper)
dotNetFormWrapper.Show()

And it works. Form is displayed, I can use all .NET stuff from VFP, and
over VFP COM I can execute some of my procedures in original VFP
application from .NET. I was wondering can I make that form somehow a
child form of my VFP application. I know it isn't likely it can be done
but it would be great. I'm interested in your ideas and possible
solutions (if there is any).

Thx