How can I generate a Napster-like form with buttons around an MDI window?
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How can I generate a Napster-like form with buttons around an MDI window?
Napster isn't an MDI...
Yes it is... it has buttons on a main form (at the top) and when you click one it opens a document in the bottom part of the screen such as the file search or news window.
No it isn't. It's an SDI. The whole thing is part of the same form. The buttons near the top tell it what to show in the lower part of the form.
Then it is an MDI, it shows multiple documents in an interface. Quit arguing, does anyone have an answer to my question?
IT IS NOT AN MDI
Look in MSDN before you start aurguing with me please. That will have a defintion that you should be able to understand
The reason no-one is answering is because you can't do that with MDI's, which is why napster isn't one. The best you can do is have a toolbar at the top of the MDI parent with buttons which open the relevant child MDI form in the application window space of the parent.
Alright whatever, anyway, I want to put buttons on top of the MDI part of the main form so that it LOOKS like Napster.
there are only a few controls you can put on an MDI form, e.g. a toolbar and also a picture box.
I suggest you put a picture box at the top of the form, then put some buttons inside it. That will work quite well. Set the border of the picture box to "None" as well.
Sorry to be so mad earlier, got too much sleep and was in a daze all day.
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Originally posted by DeepBlueCode
Sorry to be so mad earlier, got too much sleep and was in a daze all day.