MDI Form Question

[Fred]

Hi,

I have an MDI form and i want to use the background to display data
relevant to the application. Basically its just a load of labels in
groupboxes. It works except the groupboxes sit onto of all the MDI
children. I have tried playing with TopMost, send to back etc etc but
no matter what i do I cant get the forms in front of the groupboxes. :(

Any ideas?
Thanks Fred

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Fred,

I don't know if others understand your problem direct. What background are
you talking about?

Cor

"Fred" <fr**@fredthomas.co.uk> schreef in bericht
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Hi,

I have an MDI form and i want to use the background to display data
relevant to the application. Basically its just a load of labels in
groupboxes. It works except the groupboxes sit onto of all the MDI
children. I have tried playing with TopMost, send to back etc etc but
no matter what i do I cant get the forms in front of the groupboxes. :(

Any ideas?
Thanks Fred

[gene kelley]

On 24 Jun 2006 17:31:26 -0700, "Fred" <fr**@fredthomas.co.uk> wrote:

Hi,

I have an MDI form and i want to use the background to display data
relevant to the application. Basically its just a load of labels in
groupboxes. It works except the groupboxes sit onto of all the MDI
children. I have tried playing with TopMost, send to back etc etc but
no matter what i do I cant get the forms in front of the groupboxes. :(

Any ideas?
Thanks Fred

For all practical purposes, it's not possible to display a control
behind ChildForm(s) in the MDIForm client area.

The only practical client "background" is with the BackgroundImage
Property.

Gene

[Fred]

Hi Cor,

Thanks for replying.

The background I am talking about is this:

Imagine you have an MDI container window open with no other open forms
and the MDI container is maximised. You will have a whole window with
nothing in it. Its that I want to use.

In VB6 it would not let you put a label (or most other controls)
directly on the MDI parent but VB.NET does. In VB 6 I got round this
by creating a MDI Child that sat on the parent background and I set it
to always be behind all other forms using zorder. As VB.NET allows me
to put label directly onto the MDI container I was hoping I would be
able to set all the controls to be behind any open forms.

Does that make sense?!?

Thanks

Fred

Cor Ligthert [MVP] wrote:

Fred,

I don't know if others understand your problem direct. What background are
you talking about?

Cor

"Fred" <fr**@fredthomas.co.uk> schreef in bericht
news:11**********************@m73g2000cwd.googlegr oups.com...

Hi,

I have an MDI form and i want to use the background to display data
relevant to the application. Basically its just a load of labels in
groupboxes. It works except the groupboxes sit onto of all the MDI
children. I have tried playing with TopMost, send to back etc etc but
no matter what i do I cant get the forms in front of the groupboxes. :(

Any ideas?
Thanks Fred

[Fred]

Hi Gene,

Thanks for the reply.

So I guess I will have to do the work around I used with VB 6 (see my
other post)?

Thanks

Fred

gene kelley wrote:

On 24 Jun 2006 17:31:26 -0700, "Fred" <fr**@fredthomas.co.uk> wrote:

Hi,

I have an MDI form and i want to use the background to display data
relevant to the application. Basically its just a load of labels in
groupboxes. It works except the groupboxes sit onto of all the MDI
children. I have tried playing with TopMost, send to back etc etc but
no matter what i do I cant get the forms in front of the groupboxes. :(

Any ideas?
Thanks Fred

For all practical purposes, it's not possible to display a control
behind ChildForm(s) in the MDIForm client area.

The only practical client "background" is with the BackgroundImage
Property.

Gene

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

Hi Fred,

Did you try to set a panel (docked full) on your form and hide that if you
want to show the MDI container and visa versa?

Cor

"Fred" <fr**@fredthomas.co.uk> schreef in bericht
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Hi Cor,

Thanks for replying.

The background I am talking about is this:

Imagine you have an MDI container window open with no other open forms
and the MDI container is maximised. You will have a whole window with
nothing in it. Its that I want to use.

In VB6 it would not let you put a label (or most other controls)
directly on the MDI parent but VB.NET does. In VB 6 I got round this
by creating a MDI Child that sat on the parent background and I set it
to always be behind all other forms using zorder. As VB.NET allows me
to put label directly onto the MDI container I was hoping I would be
able to set all the controls to be behind any open forms.

Does that make sense?!?

Thanks

Fred

Cor Ligthert [MVP] wrote:

Fred,

I don't know if others understand your problem direct. What background
are
you talking about?

Cor

"Fred" <fr**@fredthomas.co.uk> schreef in bericht
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> Hi,
>
> I have an MDI form and i want to use the background to display data
> relevant to the application. Basically its just a load of labels in
> groupboxes. It works except the groupboxes sit onto of all the MDI
> children. I have tried playing with TopMost, send to back etc etc but
> no matter what i do I cant get the forms in front of the groupboxes. :(
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> Thanks Fred
>

[R. MacDonald]

Hello, Fred,

You can do what you want by putting the controls on the "MDIClient".
This doesn't show up as an available control within the intelli-sense of
the MDI form, but you can find it by iterating through the controls on
the MDI form and comparing the TypeOf each to MdiCLient.

Private WithEvents MDI_Frame As MdiClient

For Each CurrentItem As Control In Me.Controls
If (TypeOf CurrentItem Is MdiClient) Then
MDI_Frame = DirectCast(CurrentItem, MdiClient)
Exit For
End If
Next CurrentItem

Cheers,
Randy
Fred wrote:

Hi,

I have an MDI form and i want to use the background to display data
relevant to the application. Basically its just a load of labels in
groupboxes. It works except the groupboxes sit onto of all the MDI
children. I have tried playing with TopMost, send to back etc etc but
no matter what i do I cant get the forms in front of the groupboxes. :(

Any ideas?
Thanks Fred

[Miro]

Im running into a simillar problem.

Just wondering if you did come up with a solution ?

I too want to put some background "objects" like pictures and stuff on the
back wall of the MDI form.

Just wondering if you scrapped it, or did come up with a solution.

Thanks

Miro

"Fred" <fr**@fredthomas.co.ukwrote in message
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Hi Gene,

Thanks for the reply.

So I guess I will have to do the work around I used with VB 6 (see my
other post)?

Thanks

Fred

gene kelley wrote:

>On 24 Jun 2006 17:31:26 -0700, "Fred" <fr**@fredthomas.co.ukwrote:

>Hi,

I have an MDI form and i want to use the background to display data
relevant to the application. Basically its just a load of labels in
groupboxes. It works except the groupboxes sit onto of all the MDI
children. I have tried playing with TopMost, send to back etc etc but
no matter what i do I cant get the forms in front of the groupboxes. :(

Any ideas?
Thanks Fred

For all practical purposes, it's not possible to display a control
behind ChildForm(s) in the MDIForm client area.

The only practical client "background" is with the BackgroundImage
Property.

Gene