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Russell Scott Brown	Russell Scott Brown posted 14 Years Ago Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 124, Visits: 597	Thanks. I would be interested in this too. Russ Brown (Using C#2010/SQL Server 2008)
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Ivan George Borges	Ivan George Borges posted 14 Years Ago Post Details Share Post
Group: StrataFrame MVPs Posts: 1.9K, Visits: 21K	Hiya. Nope, this is not a StrataFrame control. This is deeply and specificaly built into PracticeStudio. Iwill see if I can get some hints on how to accomplish this and pass them to you.
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lastcanary	lastcanary posted 14 Years Ago Post Details Share Post
Group: StrataFrame Users Posts: 81, Visits: 270	Hi, I would like to use a tabbed form interface similar to the practice studio. Is this a control contained in Strataframe? Could you please help me to create a similar one?
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Trent Taylor	Trent Taylor posted 16 Years Ago Post Details Share Post
Group: StrataFrame Developers Posts: 6.6K, Visits: 6.9K	That will work fine
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Keith Gordijn	Keith Gordijn posted 16 Years Ago Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 35, Visits: 2.6K	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? private void tlmSecurity_ItemClicked(object sender, ThemedLinkMenuClickEventArgs e) { if (e.Item.Key.Equals("SecurityEditor", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase)) { MainForm loForm; loForm = (MainForm)this.ParentForm; loForm.LaunchDialog(typeof(SecurityDialog)); } } Cheers, Keith
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Keith Gordijn	Keith Gordijn posted 16 Years Ago Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 35, Visits: 2.6K	Trent L. Taylor (06/14/2007) 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. DirectCast(Me.ParentForm, MainForm).LaunchForm(GetType(MyChildForm)) 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: DirectCast(Me.ParentForm, MainForm).MDIClientProperty.LaunchForm(GetType(MyChildForm)) 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
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Paul Chase	Paul Chase posted 16 Years Ago Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 414, Visits: 2.8K	Just to add another option to this thread you can also handle the Mdi Client Control Added and Removed on your Main MDI Form. #Region " MDI Client Handled Events" Protected Sub MDIClient_ControlAdded(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As Windows.Forms.ControlEventArgs) '--> Cast To My Base Class so we get custom properties Dim loChild As Payroll.Base.WindowsForms.DevExMaintFormBase = CType(e.Control, System.Windows.Forms.Form) ' do anything you need to do -add handlers update custom lists etc End Sub Protected Sub MDIClient_ControlRemoved(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As Windows.Forms.ControlEventArgs) '--> Cast To Base Class so we get custom properties Dim loChild As Payroll.Base.WindowsForms.DevExMaintFormBase = CType(e.Control, System.Windows.Forms.Form) ' do anything you need to do - remove handlers update custom lists etc End Sub #End Region
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Edhy Rijo	E Edhy Rijo posted 16 Years Ago Post Details Share Post
E Group: StrataFrame Users Posts: 2.4K, Visits: 23K	Hi Teddy, Thanks for sharing this approach, it definitely provide ideas on how to get similar results in different ways which is very good, specially when learning .NET. Edhy Rijo
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Teddy Jensen	Teddy Jensen posted 16 Years Ago Post Details Share Post
Group: StrataFrame Users Posts: 52, Visits: 8K	In case anyone wants a ToolStripDropDownButton instead of a windowslist in a sidepanel or on a menu you can use this approach. On the toolstrip i have a button called tsbVinduer so my code on the main form is Private Sub tsbVinduer_DropDownOpening(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles tsbVinduer.DropDownOpening tsbVinduer.DropDownItems.Clear() For Each f As Form In Me.MdiChildren Dim item As ToolStripMenuItem = New ToolStripMenuItem(f.Text) item.Tag = f AddHandler item.Click, AddressOf item_Click tsbVinduer.DropDownItems.Add(item) Next End Sub Private Sub item_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) Dim item As ToolStripItem = TryCast(sender, ToolStripItem) If item IsNot Nothing Then Dim f As Form = TryCast(item.Tag, Form) If f IsNot Nothing Then f.Activate() End If End If End Sub It gives me this result: /Teddy
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Trent Taylor	Trent Taylor posted 16 Years Ago Post Details Share Post
Group: StrataFrame Developers Posts: 6.6K, Visits: 6.9K	You would be passing it into some method. If you look further up the food-chain on this thread, you will see that they have a collection that stores off the open forms. So when the form is loaded, you would add this guid to the collection with probably a title or something else so that it could be identified in the list (if you are using the panel on the left approach).
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