Hiya.

I am shamelessly trying to copy "someone's" idea of a MainForm.

My intention is to get rid of the MenuStrip and use the ThemedToolStrip instead. So far, so good. But now I got to the "Window" item, which will show the opened MDI windows list.

Now I would need to have a "Window" ToolStripDropDownButton to behave in the same way as the MenuStrip MdiWindowListItem. Would that be too difficult to implement?

Cheers.

I think that the best thing to do would be to expose the MDI client...or....if your main form just has the MDIContainer property set you can reference it directly.  When the form is launched it will have a reference to the parent form in the ParentForm property which you can type and reference.  You may need to make your LauncForm method public or Friend so it can be accessed though.

If you are using an MDIClient control and manually adding it to the form, then you can just expose it through a public property and basically do the same thing:

Hi Trent,



My project follows the ideas outlined in this topic by following the StrataFlix example and I would also like to use the LaunchDialog method of the mainform from a "Setup and Configuration" form (strangely also very similar to the PracticeStudio.NET screen shot earlier in this topic) to open a maintenance form as a child form in the main mdi form.



Unfortunately my still limited knowledge of C# wont let me alter the above VB code to a C# version so any help on doing this would be great.



Cheers,

Keith

Hooray, I've had some success! Maybe I should get up at 2am more often.



So, now my question is, is this the best way of doing this?







Cheers,

Keith

That will work fine