[2.0] problems with setting Parent & displaying icons

[bushmobile]

thanks for the reply jmcilhinney, I probably should have explained a bit more about what I'm doing. The user needs to be able interact with the area behind the child forms - below is an example i posted in this thread last year when I was trying to do this in VB6:



well i managed to do it in VB6 - using a MDIChild that was always kept the same size as the MDIForm client area and using SetParent to place the child forms within that + plus a large dose of subclassing (i implemented other things that restricted the size / position of the child forms - which I'm not so bothered about this time) - anyway I was hoping it might be a bit simpler in .Net, or am I going to have to start flinging the APIs around?

and do you know why those icons are displaying incorrectly in the first post?

cheers