MDI Parent Background Colour

I am sure this is an obvious thing I am missing, but I am trying to change the backdrop colour of the mdiparent form and I can't find the property.

It isn't backcolor as this is the colour of the form itself. I want to change the colour of the bit where all the mdi kids appear.

All help appreciated.

Maybe it is the back color - and maybe there is a bug?

I changed the backcolor to bright red (just to test) and it didn't change anything in the ide - I then ran it via the ide and - it still didnt change anything. However there was some serious flash effects occuring behind the mdi parent -

Has anyone changed the backcolor of an mdi parent successfully?

Thanks

MDI Parents pick up the Application Background color you have set in your display settings. Once you set a form to MDIContainer the BackColor property is ignored.

However, you can still set a background image. If you want to just change the color of this form then create a .jpg with the color you want and apply it as a BackgroundImage. The form will automatically tile the image.

HTH

Thanks for the reply.

I'll do it with a background image - although I am sure that in vb6 - it was possible via the parent form background property.

oh well.

Actually that won't work either, or at least it didn't for me. However, if you follow the steps in this knowledge base article:

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;319417

...you can set the MDI workspace to any color (or image) you choose.

A little bit clunky but it works like a charm.

Tom