Button-Bordered MDI - Part II

[DeepBlueCode]

How can I generate a Napster-like form with buttons around an MDI window?

[chrisjk]

Napster isn't an MDI...

[DeepBlueCode]

Yes it is... it has buttons on a main form (at the top) and when you click one it opens a document in the bottom part of the screen such as the file search or news window.

[chrisjk]

No it isn't. It's an SDI. The whole thing is part of the same form. The buttons near the top tell it what to show in the lower part of the form.

[DeepBlueCode]

Then it is an MDI, it shows multiple documents in an interface. Quit arguing, does anyone have an answer to my question?

[chrisjk]

IT IS NOT AN MDI

Look in MSDN before you start aurguing with me please. That will have a defintion that you should be able to understand

The reason no-one is answering is because you can't do that with MDI's, which is why napster isn't one. The best you can do is have a toolbar at the top of the MDI parent with buttons which open the relevant child MDI form in the application window space of the parent.

[DeepBlueCode]

Alright whatever, anyway, I want to put buttons on top of the MDI part of the main form so that it LOOKS like Napster.

[chrisjk]

there are only a few controls you can put on an MDI form, e.g. a toolbar and also a picture box.

I suggest you put a picture box at the top of the form, then put some buttons inside it. That will work quite well. Set the border of the picture box to "None" as well.

[DeepBlueCode]

Sorry to be so mad earlier, got too much sleep and was in a daze all day.

[chrisjk]

Originally posted by DeepBlueCode
Sorry to be so mad earlier, got too much sleep and was in a daze all day.

okay