MDI Form

[DANY]

Hello to all,

I have an MDI form. If I opened a child form and then I open another child form, I need to close the first form. I need a routine of clearing out the **first** child form and so on. The problem is everytime I open a child form, I have to unload it and so on. I have to know which child form is opened, then unload all other child forms. Is there a generic routine/code of handling this.


thanks

[Ed Lampman]

The primary purpose for a MDI application is to allow several child forms to be opened at one time. Good examples are Word and Excel.

To manipulate child forms from within the MDI form, you refer to the MDIForm.ActiveForm property.

In other words, if you have two child forms open at one time, and on each you have a textbox named Text1, you can retrieve the contents of each textbox with this code:

strText = MDIForm.ActiveForm.Text1.Text

Can I ask why you want to use a MDI form if you're only going to allow one child form to be open at one time??