MDI menu merge prevention

[Thrakazog]

I have an MDI app with several child forms. The MDI form has a MainMenu control on it. My child forms also have MainMenu controls. By Windows defaults when a child form is opened in the MDI, the childs MainMenu is added to the MDI parents MainMenu.

How can I prevent this? I want the MDI forms MainMenu left alone. I need the child forms MainMenu controls to appear on them and not be merged with the parent MDI.

 

[chiph]

Sorry, this is how MDI forms work.

Chip H.


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[earthandfire]

Additionally, if try to use chrissie1's trick of loading the child form as a "sub-form" ie add it to the controls collection of the main form (and set its TopLevel property to false) you will lose the child form's menu completely - so as far as I can see there is no solution other than to have the child form as a seperate form.

 

[chrissie1]

Or try another menu-control like dotnetbar

Christiaan Baes
Belgium

I just like this --> [Wiggle] [Wiggle]

 

[Thrakazog]

Thanks for the input everybody. But I needed to move on the issue so I wrote my own menu control. So far it works great and gives me lots of enhancement opportunities.