mdi form as a section of a form

I am looking to set up a form with two areas, one being an MDI type of form and another area beside that for other things...

ie basically an MDI form with some space outside the mdi area for other bits and pieces.

any ideas?

thanks

A form is a control is a compoent - the MDI form could be contained in the other form.

Yes, this i have already thought, but I wasn't quite sure how to work with it, it seems you can only do it programmatically, so i tried adding it like other components to the local container, the program ran but never showed any forms at any and exited straight away with no errors..

I'll have another crack at it today.

thanks

Seems an MDI form must be a top level form.

You cannot add top level controls to other things. i believe.

Any solution to this??

Ok,so far the solution looks to be to have a single form, with a panel in it set to 3D border. This can be set to contain forms and looks very similar to an MDI form, except that when the document forms are selected, they dont look to have focus. This is something to do with them also being set to NOT be 'toplevel' which is required if they are going to be embedded inside the panel.

There is no property to set the title bar colour...


Anyonegot any ideas??