closing mdi child forms

kanoorani · May 31st, 2006, 07:53 AM

good evening!

i've placed 2 menu items CLOSE and CLOSE ALL in the FILE menu on my MDI form, now i want such a mechanism that,
when i click on CLOSE, then the active MDI child form should be closed
and when i click on CLOSE ALL, then all the MDI child forms should be close

can n.e 1 guide me???

i'll w8 4 a good reply

woodyz · May 31st, 2006, 03:08 PM

There are several ways to do this. Here is one:

Code:

Private Sub mnuCloseAll_Click()
    Do Until MDIForm1.ActiveForm Is Nothing
        Unload MDIForm1.ActiveForm
    Loop
End Sub

This assumes your menu item is named mnuCloseAll, and your MDIForm is named MDIForm1.

Each time you delete a active child form, the next one becomes the active one, so looping through each form this way works. When there are no more child forms, there is no MDIForm1.Activeform and the loop terminates.

Woody Z http://www.learntoprogramnow.com