[RESOLVED] MDI Child and Parent problems???

[bluehairman]

Ok. I have two problems.
1. I want the Child form to have an opacity of .7 when it loses focus. But it doesn't seem to work. Any reason why?
2. Whenever my child has focus, the menubar items disappear. But when they don't have focus they are there. Any reason why this would happen? [resolved]

My program makes new forms when you hit "New".
Code to make a new form:

Dim ChildForm As New Form1
        ChildForm.MdiParent = Me
        m_ChildFormNumber += 1
        ChildForm.Text = "New Document " & m_ChildFormNumber
        ChildForm.Show()

[jmcilhinney]

It is only possible to have transparent top-level windows. When you make a form an MDI child it is no longer a top-level window, but a child control of its MDI parent. The only way to make an MDI child transparent is to make its parent transparent, which is obviously not what you want.