Hi everyone,
When you create a MDI form, you can attach a main menu to the parent and to the child. When a child form is active, its menu is merged with the parent menu.
The problem is: when the forms are right to left, after merging the menus the parent menu is displayed left to the child menu, which is ok in left to right windows but not in right to left windows. After you play with your mouse with the menu items, the parent menu suddenly goes to the right.
Anyone knows a solution for it?
Here is a sample code for the forms (put it in two seperated files):
When you create a MDI form, you can attach a main menu to the parent and to the child. When a child form is active, its menu is merged with the parent menu.
The problem is: when the forms are right to left, after merging the menus the parent menu is displayed left to the child menu, which is ok in left to right windows but not in right to left windows. After you play with your mouse with the menu items, the parent menu suddenly goes to the right.
Anyone knows a solution for it?
Here is a sample code for the forms (put it in two seperated files):
Code:
'Main Form
Public Class MainForm
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form
#Region " Windows Form Designer generated code "
Public Sub New()
MyBase.New()
'This call is required by the Windows Form Designer.
InitializeComponent()
'Add any initialization after the InitializeComponent() call
End Sub
'Form overrides dispose to clean up the component list.
Protected Overloads Overrides Sub Dispose(ByVal disposing As Boolean)
If disposing Then
If Not (components Is Nothing) Then
components.Dispose()
End If
End If
MyBase.Dispose(disposing)
End Sub
'Required by the Windows Form Designer
Private components As System.ComponentModel.IContainer
'NOTE: The following procedure is required by the Windows Form Designer
'It can be modified using the Windows Form Designer.
'Do not modify it using the code editor.
Friend WithEvents MainMenu1 As System.Windows.Forms.MainMenu
Friend WithEvents MenuItem1 As System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem
Friend WithEvents MenuItem2 As System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem
<System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThrough()> Private Sub InitializeComponent()
Me.MainMenu1 = New System.Windows.Forms.MainMenu
Me.MenuItem1 = New System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem
Me.MenuItem2 = New System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem
'
'MainMenu1
'
Me.MainMenu1.MenuItems.AddRange(New System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem() {Me.MenuItem1})
'
'MenuItem1
'
Me.MenuItem1.Index = 0
Me.MenuItem1.MenuItems.AddRange(New System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem() {Me.MenuItem2})
Me.MenuItem1.Text = "Menu1"
'
'MenuItem2
'
Me.MenuItem2.Index = 0
Me.MenuItem2.Text = "Item1"
'
'MainForm
'
Me.AutoScaleBaseSize = New System.Drawing.Size(5, 13)
Me.ClientSize = New System.Drawing.Size(292, 266)
Me.IsMdiContainer = True
Me.Menu = Me.MainMenu1
Me.Name = "MainForm"
Me.RightToLeft = System.Windows.Forms.RightToLeft.Yes
Me.Text = "MainForm"
Me.WindowState = System.Windows.Forms.FormWindowState.Maximized
End Sub
#End Region
Private Sub MenuItem2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MenuItem2.Click
Dim tmpChildForm As New ChildForm
tmpChildForm.MdiParent = Me
tmpChildForm.Show()
End Sub
End Class
'ChildForm
Public Class ChildForm
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form
#Region " Windows Form Designer generated code "
Public Sub New()
MyBase.New()
'This call is required by the Windows Form Designer.
InitializeComponent()
'Add any initialization after the InitializeComponent() call
End Sub
'Form overrides dispose to clean up the component list.
Protected Overloads Overrides Sub Dispose(ByVal disposing As Boolean)
If disposing Then
If Not (components Is Nothing) Then
components.Dispose()
End If
End If
MyBase.Dispose(disposing)
End Sub
'Required by the Windows Form Designer
Private components As System.ComponentModel.IContainer
'NOTE: The following procedure is required by the Windows Form Designer
'It can be modified using the Windows Form Designer.
'Do not modify it using the code editor.
Friend WithEvents MainMenu1 As System.Windows.Forms.MainMenu
Friend WithEvents MenuItem1 As System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem
Friend WithEvents MenuItem2 As System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem
<System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThrough()> Private Sub InitializeComponent()
Me.MainMenu1 = New System.Windows.Forms.MainMenu
Me.MenuItem1 = New System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem
Me.MenuItem2 = New System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem
'
'MainMenu1
'
Me.MainMenu1.MenuItems.AddRange(New System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem() {Me.MenuItem1})
'
'MenuItem1
'
Me.MenuItem1.Index = 0
Me.MenuItem1.MenuItems.AddRange(New System.Windows.Forms.MenuItem() {Me.MenuItem2})
Me.MenuItem1.MergeOrder = 1
Me.MenuItem1.Text = "Menu2"
'
'MenuItem2
'
Me.MenuItem2.Index = 0
Me.MenuItem2.Text = "Item1"
'
'ChildForm
'
Me.AutoScaleBaseSize = New System.Drawing.Size(5, 13)
Me.ClientSize = New System.Drawing.Size(292, 266)
Me.Menu = Me.MainMenu1
Me.Name = "ChildForm"
Me.RightToLeft = System.Windows.Forms.RightToLeft.Yes
Me.Text = "ChildForm"
Me.WindowState = System.Windows.Forms.FormWindowState.Maximized
End Sub
#End Region
End Class