Toolbar Question

[vsusi]

I have a toolbar with dropdown menu on my main form (in MDIParent).

I am able to access it (using Alt + Keys) only from that form when there is no child forms loaded.

I want it to be accessed even from child forms using access Keys (Alt + Keys).

Currently it doesn't work.

I know that none of my questions have been answered (Fully) so far. .Net is scaring me. But I also know that I am doing a very very simple (sample) project with just one Child form & one MDI Form. (May be .NET is for advanced programming only and not for simple (VB) programs.)

[Edneeis]

Make sure that on both forms the menuitems you want to show have a MergeType of Add. .NET just takes a little getting used to, soon you'll start thinking in line with it and your problems wont be so bad. .NET is for both small and large apps.

I just noticed that you said 'ToolBar' and not menuitem, sorry.

Toolbars are specific to each form and there isn't an automatic way to share them across forms. You have several workarounds that you could do though. you could use a Menuitem instead, thats the easiest, or you could use a hidden menuitem, or set the childs KeyPreview property to true so it can catch keyboard keypresses and forward them to the parent if need be.

[vsusi]

Thanks for your reply.

But none of them works.

Toolbar accepts only ContextMenu and not MenuItem

[Edneeis]

I don't mean for it to be part of the toolbar I mean just on the form in a MainMenu. Or forward the request from one form to the other via a method and the KeyPreview option. So if you set the KeyPreview to true in the child you should be able to catch the Alt+Key you want and then call a method in the parent to carry out the action.