MDI Child Menu Strip 1

[NSNewey]

Hi,

Is there a way in vb 2005 to have a menu strip on an MDI child form?

When I drop a menu strip onto the form, at runtime it is merged with the menu strip on the MDI parent form.

I can use a tool strip which displays on the child form but a menu strip is preferable.

 

[mansii]

Set the AllowMerge property of the menu strip on the MDI parent form to False.

 

[NSNewey]

Thanks very much.

Sometimes the simplest things are the hardest to find. I trawled the web for ages and all I could find was that merging was the windows standard and that's that.

Thanks again.

 

[earthandfire]

Personally, I prefer the opposite approach.

Leave AllowMerge set to True on the Main menu (the MDI Container Form), and set the AllowMerge property to False on the Child Form.

That way, if I have a number of different types of Child Form, some can merge menus, whilst others can't.


Hope this helps.