Hi

When you create a mdi application. You will have your mdi parent. Then you have the child forms. But when you maximize the child form it sort of merges/overlaps with the toolstrip on the mdi parent.

• is there a way to make sure that the mdi child maximum size is the size of that available dark space in the mdi parent. Not to merge or overlap the toolstrip!!

Thanks in advance 

Hi NoBugs

It is actually very common behaviour, does it in C# and VB. But it shouldn't because and mdi application you would but on the market will not do this.

Here is my code for a mini try. Click on "file" in toolstrip to make child form. Then when you click maximize on the child form you will see that it actualy overlaps the toolstrip and moves it down. I want it to be only able to maximize until beneath it.

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Text;

using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace WindowsApplication1

{

class Class1:Form

{

public MenuStrip MenuStr = new MenuStrip();

public ToolStripMenuItem FileMenItem = new ToolStripMenuItem();

public Class1()

{

this.Name = "Parent";

this.IsMdiContainer = true;

this.Width = 500;

this.Height = 500;

MenuStr.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(0, 0);

MenuStr.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(292, 24);

MenuStr.TabIndex = 0;

MenuStr.Name = "MainMenuStrip";

MenuStr.Enabled = true;

MenuStr.Visible = true;

FileMenItem.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(35, 20);

FileMenItem.Text = "&File";

FileMenItem.Name = "File";

MenuStr.Items.AddRange(new ToolStripItem[] { FileMenItem, });

this.Controls.Add(MenuStr);

FileMenItem.Click+=new EventHandler(FileMenItem_Click);

//BuildChildForm();

}

private void FileMenItem_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)

{

BuildChildForm();

}

private void BuildChildForm()

{

Form cf = new Form();

cf.MdiParent = Application.OpenForms["Parent"]; //"Parent";

cf.Width = 100;

cf.Height = 50;

cf.Show();

}

}

}

Thanks in advance

Hi nobugz

Yes, that is exactly what i'm talking about. I do not want the menustrip to move down. I want the clients to only go as big as the clientrectangle when clicked on maximize. Is there no way??? if you try to use MaximizedBounds on the child form it seems to ignore it totaly.

Any way around this???

Thanks in advance

Wow - thats frustrating. Would be nice if there could be a property like HideIcon that you could set to true for MDI Children. Or the old way where the menu slid to the right of the childs Icon. Maybe VS2008

Hey, that actually works! THanks for the tip. I tried editing my existing MDI Parent, cuting and pasting the menu and icon strip and that didnt work. But doing it on a new form like you describe does work. Thats a fine thing because I cant see the users going for all that used up space on their screens.

Thanks