MDI container & toolstrip question

[swingyswongy]

So currently i have been working on a application that is a MDI parent, with child forms. I use a un docked toolstrip as a toolbox since i like the small icons and mouse hover, but one issue that bugs me is that when a child form is open in the parent form it's "under" the tooltrip. For example moving childform1 pass the toolstrip menu makes the form go under rather ontop. Is there anyway to give the child forms foreground when moving?
thanks

[jmcilhinney]

No there isn't. When you set IsMdiContainer to True for a form, notice how it turns grey? That's because an MdiClient control is added to the form and it's inside that that your child forms are hosted. The ToolStrip must be either in front of the MdiClient or behind it. If it's behind it then you won't see ToolStrip and if it's in front then it's in front of everything the MdiClient contains, i.e. the child forms. It's not possible to host the ToolStrip in the MdiClient so you're out of luck. If you dock the ToolStrip then the MdiClient will resize to occupy the remaining space.

[swingyswongy]

yeah that makes sense, i guess ill just put the toolbox in a form and it will solve my problems.

Question; can you make a child form load at a specific cordinate? ex 500, 800

[jmcilhinney]

Just like any form, set the StartPosition to Manual and then set the Location.