Hi,

I'm using an MDI environment,and the mdi form has a menu item on it. I am trying to add a menu item to a child form, however when I open the form the menu items either get added to the MDi form menu, or they do not appear at all. Can anybody tell me what i'm doing wrong.

Cheers

Hello,

I don't think you can have a separate set of Menu controls on a child form. I remember in VB6, whenever you had a child form with menu controls, it hid the MDI controls, so only one set of controls was visible.

What I did was create a menu item for the child form, set visible of that item to false, and set it to true when the form is loaded.

Hope this helps,

Brian

Hi Brian,

I'll bear that in mind. I opted for the toolbar approach. It looks OK.

Cheers

Byron

Hi

I have just recently started a MDI application and found some code for working with menu items. What you can have is your child form menu items merge or add to your MDI forms menu.

What to look at is the MergeType in the menu control. Set up 2 menu controls one on your MDI and one on your child form. For example creating a 'File' menu have the MDI and the child have a 'File' menu with different items. Set the MergeType to be Mergeitems on both controls and when you run the application both items will merge. Also you can add a menu item from the child to appear in the MDI menu. Do this by setting the child Mergetype to 'Add'.

This is just an example of what I have implemented and I hope this gives you an idea.

Nickie