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.

Ivan,

Your main form looks really good. I too was first thinking of a toolstrip dropdown that would show the open windows.  Now i have decided to use a panel like yours and the one from Practice Studio, so i can use it to show some more info. I do however have issues with this (read - it doesn't look the way i want it)

Can you describe how you did your panel and lists?

TIA.

/Teddy

Really all you need to do is set the MdiParent property on the parent form to False.  Drop a FlowLayoutPanel (or ThemedPanel) on the form and dock it left.  Next, in your main form, define an MdiClient class (it is a control) as a private and manually add it to the form.  This MdiClient will be where all of there client forms will appear, but the panels docking will be left intact.