Is there a way to trap a form inside of another form?

[Reddytedy]

Is there a way to trap one form inside of another...I am making a program that will have the ability to have a few windows inside of the main window...it is a telnet control.

One window would have say the main terminal screen.
One window would have say private messages and so on.

And each window would be able to be resized to the users specification.

Alan

[Yonatan]

You can create an MDI Application, like this:

• Create an MDIForm, and two Forms. The forms should have their MDIChild property set to True.
• In the project properties, change the Startup Object to MDIForm1 or whatever you decided to call it.
• Put a menu on the MDIForm. The caption would be Window. Make sure you set the menu's WindowList to True (Checked) before you create the menu items.
• The menu: (Don't notice the quotation marks)
  Item 1: Name = "mnuCreateForm1", Caption = "Create Form1"
  Item 2: Name = "mnuCreateForm2", Caption = "Create Form2"

Now, the code:

Option Explicit

Private Sub mnuCreateForm1_Click()
    Dim frmNew As Form1
    
    Set frmNew = New Form1
    Call frmNew.Show
End Sub

Private Sub mnuCreateForm2_Click()
    Dim frmNew As Form2
    
    Set frmNew = New Form2
    Call frmNew.Show
End Sub