Child Form to stay in Parent Form

[Mike L]

The child form can be dragged out of the Parent form. I set the child form
to IsMdiContainer = False and the Parent Form IsMdiContainer = True. I also
coded in the Parent Form on load,
Dim f As New frmEntryForm
f.MdiParent = Me

What am I missing? The child form appears not to be attached to the parent
form.

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Mike L" <Ca***@nospam.nospam> schrieb:

The child form can be dragged out of the Parent form. I set the child
form
to IsMdiContainer = False and the Parent Form IsMdiContainer = True. I
also
coded in the Parent Form on load,
Dim f As New frmEntryForm
f.MdiParent = Me

In your code you are never showing the form.

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f.Show()
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[Mike Labosh]

> The child form can be dragged out of the Parent form. I set the child

form
to IsMdiContainer = False and the Parent Form IsMdiContainer = True. I
also
coded in the Parent Form on load,
Dim f As New frmEntryForm
f.MdiParent = Me

What am I missing? The child form appears not to be attached to the
parent
form.

Off the top of my head, you may be showing your child form as modal. I
think (without having tried it) that the code below will allow a user to
drag the child outside the parent.

Private Sub MdiParent_MenuItem1_Click(...)
Dim f As New frmChild()
f.MdiParent = Me
f.ShowDialog()
End Sub

If think (without having tried it) that this will do what you want:

Private Sub MdiParent_MenuItem1_Click(...)
Dim f As New frmChild()
f.MdiParent = Me
f.Show()
End Sub

It is my understanding (without having tried it) that the difference is
between .Show() and .ShowDialog()

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