i'd like the following code to work (where this. is a MDI child form)
this.HelpButton = true;
this.HelpButtonClicked += HandleHelpButtonClicked;
this.Refresh();
this code is being called after the mdi child form is displayed.
I wonder if i need to find some way of redrawing the title bar?
David
From the MSDN docs:
The value of the HelpButton property is ignored if the Maximize or Minimize buttons are shown.
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When I click maximize in control box on child form, control box buttons are disappearing. How can I prevent that? I want to show that control box part like when I do this :
"Form1.Dock = DockStyle.Fill"
Example:
Take a look at the XtraForm.AllowMdiBar property that control whether an MDI bar is allowed for this form:
P.S. This property is in effect for a parent MDI form, when the title bar skinning feature is enabled.
P.P.S. See also the Remarks section.
I have a form that when I check a box (Duplicate #), a form pops up (CableID_DuplicateView), and I want it to remain ontop until the checkbox is unchecked. However this isn't happening.
I have set the TopMost property to true both dynamically and statically;
this.TopMost = true;
this.TopMost = Checkbox.Checked;
But if I click on anything on the previous form, it gets shoved to the back.
How can I keep it ontop?
Note: I want the other form to still be accessible beneath the top form. And yes, this is an Mdi application, does that make a difference on the TopMost property?
This worked for my similar problem:
try
yourTopForm.TopLevel=true;
yourTopForm.TopMost=true;
yourTopForm.Show(this);
The overloaded Show(this) funcition to show the form is the important part.
It is impossible to make the windows stay on top in MDI system. You can try to activate the windows, so they pop on the top, but this makes only more harm to other actions. I wouldn't recommend trying that. There is just no working way to make some window TopMost in MDI configuration.
Pass your parent form into the Show method of your Top Most form.
I have an MDIChild that has a toolstrip. When I open the window the toolstrip is displayed alongside the toolstrip of the MDIParent. The searching I have done suggests that this is normal behaviour unless the child is opened modally. Can I not stop this from happening and fix the toolstrip to the window it is meant to be displayed on?
This is the MDI Parent
This is the MDI Child
This is what happens when I open the child and what I want to stop happening.
Set the AllowMerge Property of the MenuStrip of the Child form to false.
From MSDN
Use the AllowMerge property to enable multiple-document interface (MDI) children to combine their respective menus in the MDI parent.
When this property is set the true, the menus will combine (just like in your case). When false, they won't
I got a strange problem. My mdi child form has 2 close buttons and 2 maximized buttons.
A screenshot of the problem:
I create the mdi child like this:
summaryForm.MdiParent = ContainerForm;
summaryForm.WindowState = FormWindowState.Maximized;
summaryForm.Show();
If I get rid of "summaryForm.WindowState = FormWindowState.Maximized;", the window style is correct. But I hope to make the mdi child form maximized when created.
It's a bug in Winforms. This will happen when the child is created by the parent's constructor. Move it to the Load event.
try this:
childform.ControlBox = false;
I have a parent form that is set to be TopMost and then I have another form that opens when a button is clicked. This child form is also set to be TopMost. The first issue I had was that when I opened the child form, the application would basically freeze because you couldn't access anything. I decided that instead of using ShowDialog() to open the child form, I would use Show(this). This did fix the initial problem but now I have a new one. The childforms start postition is set to be CenterParent and when I use Show(this), it doesn't work. Is there any way I can make the childform open while both it and the parent form are set to topmost while having the childforms start position set to CenterParent? Thank you.
I've find something useful to share with you, guys. Instead following code
form2.TopMost = true;
use this code in main form:
form2.Owner = this;
If you use Form.TopMost property, the form will overlap all other non-topmost forms, but also those from other applications. Instead of this, set the Form.Owner property to the parent form – the one which should be under the form (e.g. the main form).
G00d luck :)
You could try clearing the TopMost property of the parent form for the duration that the child form is visible.
This would solve the problem of which form should be top most, as there will only ever be one.
Hmm. I've created To forms. Then i set TopMost = true on both. The i add button to first and wrote
new Form2().ShowDialog();
And all just fine. Form2 active and clickable. Form1 not since ShowDialog was called
And second variant works fine. Form2 opened in center of the screen.
May be i misunderstood something?