Hi, all,

I create an application by using MDIForm with menu on it. when user click the menu, a form will be opened, I want to know when I need to open MDI child form and when I should open a ordinary form?

When I open a modal form, it gray all the menu on MDIForm, I don't want it like this, is it possible to solve this issue? And also when I try to add another menu on child form, when this child form is loaded, the menu went to parent form.

Can I add menu on child form?

Thanks!

Andraw

Actually, the default of the show command is Modal, which means that the window will get all the focus and prevent the access to other child windows in the same MDI window until this child window is closed.
what you should do is to use the non-modal parameter with the show command. like:

FormB.Show vbModeless

this should solve the problem and the window will appear and wont affect the other child windows. But i must warn that if the window opend modeless and you click on other windows, there is a possibility they will cover this window and you will end up closing some windows to reach to that one.

Incorrect sir. Defalut is vbModeless not vbModal and Modal is the name of the parameter(variable(optional)) that you are passing into the show method.

As for the menu problems you are experiencing Andraw,... The parent (MDI) menu items will be replaced by the child's menu items, so what you are seeing is the childs menu on the parent.

Good Luck