form background image - mdi parent form

[Bernie Yaeger]

It's trivial to have an image as the background in an mdi child form. What
I can't seem to get done is place an image as the background of an mdi
parent form. Is there a way to do this?

Thanks for any help.

Bernie Yaeger

[lgbjr]

Hi Bernie,

Just dealt with this myself. Can't do it out of the box, but, check out:

http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/Md...tRevisited.asp

the dll is written in C#, but it's pretty straight forward. Just add the dll
to your toolbox, then drop the control on the MDI parent form. You can set
the background color and add an image (centered or stretched)

HTH
Lee

"Bernie Yaeger" <be*****@optonl ine.net> wrote in message
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It's trivial to have an image as the background in an mdi child form.
What I can't seem to get done is place an image as the background of an
mdi parent form. Is there a way to do this?

Thanks for any help.

Bernie Yaeger

[Bernie Yaeger]

Hi Lee,

Thanks for your help; I'm reviewing the code and the dll now.

Bernie

"lgbjr" <lg***@nospam.c om> wrote in message
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Hi Bernie,

Just dealt with this myself. Can't do it out of the box, but, check out:

http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/Md...tRevisited.asp

the dll is written in C#, but it's pretty straight forward. Just add the
dll to your toolbox, then drop the control on the MDI parent form. You can
set the background color and add an image (centered or stretched)

HTH
Lee

"Bernie Yaeger" <be*****@optonl ine.net> wrote in message
news:uQ******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP15.phx.gbl...

It's trivial to have an image as the background in an mdi child form.
What I can't seem to get done is place an image as the background of an
mdi parent form. Is there a way to do this?

Thanks for any help.

Bernie Yaeger

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Bernie Yaeger" <be*****@optonl ine.net> schrieb:

It's trivial to have an image as the background in an mdi child form.
What I can't seem to get done is place an image as the background of an
mdi parent form. Is there a way to do this?

<URL:http://www.dotnetrix.c o.uk/mdi.html>
-> "Customize an MDI Application."

Painting in the MDI Client Area
<URL:http://vbaccelerator.c om/article.asp?id= 4306>

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>

[Bernie Yaeger]

Tx Herfried,

I am having some trouble with the other code, so this is doubly welcome.

Thanks as always

Bernie

"Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]" <hi************ ***@gmx.at> wrote in message
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"Bernie Yaeger" <be*****@optonl ine.net> schrieb:

It's trivial to have an image as the background in an mdi child form.
What I can't seem to get done is place an image as the background of an
mdi parent form. Is there a way to do this?

<URL:http://www.dotnetrix.c o.uk/mdi.html>
-> "Customize an MDI Application."

Painting in the MDI Client Area
<URL:http://vbaccelerator.c om/article.asp?id= 4306>

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>

[C-Services Holland b.v.]

Bernie Yaeger wrote:

It's trivial to have an image as the background in an mdi child form. What
I can't seem to get done is place an image as the background of an mdi
parent form. Is there a way to do this?

Thanks for any help.

Bernie Yaeger

I've done this in the IDE. It doesn't show up when in design mode, but
when running the app it shows the background image in the MDI parent.
Somehow setting the isMDIcontainer prevents is from showing in the IDE,
don't know why though.