How do I make the form take up the screen???

[Hiroshi]

How do I make the form take up the screen without the top title bar. You know, full screen.
Is it possible?

[Shaggy Hiker]

Try setting windowstate to maximized, caption to "", and controlbox to false. I think that will make the window take up the WHOLE screen (including covering the task bar, but that seems to be a side effect of getting rid of the caption bar up top).

[kebo]

I think you need to set the form border style to none and maximize the form.
kevin

[Negative0]

Set your Text = ""
Set the Control Box = False
Set the form WindowState = Maximized.

[kebo]

Try setting windowstate to maximized, caption to "", and controlbox to false. I think that will make the window take up the WHOLE screen (including covering the task bar, but that seems to be a side effect of getting rid of the caption bar up top).

cool another way... I like options!

[ultimate_girl]

speaking of form properties, what do i need to set so that the user will be unable to drag around a child form within its parent form?

[Ideas Man]

speaking of form properties, what do i need to set so that the user will be unable to drag around a child form within its parent form?

You need to set the form up as an MDI Parent before it can host MDI child forms. It's simply a property in the form that you can set at design time called IsMdiContainer.

Then to display MDI children, use the following code:

Private Sub AddMDIChild(form as Form)
    form.MdiParent = Me
    form.Show()
End Sub

[ultimate_girl]

done that. the problem is if the child form's position is x = 0 y = 0, just by clicking the mouse on the child form, the user can drag the child form to the left-most part of the parent form or whenever he wants to put it hence the x and y values will change.

[Ideas Man]

Yeah, that's normal behaviour though.

[ultimate_girl]

so does that mean there is no solution?

[Ideas Man]

No, you could try setting the border style for the child forms to no border also, then they can't move them.