Graphical Toolbars in MDI Forms

[AliBail]

Hi, Taking AOL as an example, how do they have that cool graphical Toolbar at the top of there MDI Form, and also how do they have a text box etc.

For those of u who dont use aol, attached is a screenshot of what i mean.

Thanks for any help.

(Image has lsot some of its colour as i had to change it to gif!)

[numtel]

Just put everything in picture box and if you want the graphics that change on rollover search this forum for 'on mouse out'.
Please don't call anything AOL cool, i really don't like it as I've had it for 5 years.

[AliBail]

well ive had it for 5/6 years also, and the UK version of its great (And ive had no problems with it).

Anyway, i mean, i dont want to load it as an image. AS i assume u know:

U cant put labels, or anything onto an MDI Form (I dont think anyway).

I tried using another form and resizing it automatically so it looked like a toolbar, but it didn't work correctly.

Basically i need the same idea as AOL's toolbar, but in my app.

Thanks again

[numtel]

Yes i realize you dont want one big image you still put everything in a picture box, it's a container. The only controls you can put directly on mdi forms are one's with an align property like toolbar and picture box. Trust me, try putting a picutre box on the mdi form and then you can put more things inside of if. if you don't want the inset border set its borderstyle to 0.

[JaredM]

LOL. yeah. AOL is awful. It's so easy, no wonder stupid people buy it.

[AliBail]

ok, now i get u, thanks

And IM NOT STUPID. I use it because for £15 a month I get 24 hours 7 days a week access without paying a telephone bill. which for us in the UK is very rare!

[JaredM]

I knew someone would get offended. Ha ha ha.

I've got a cable modem at home, that runs circles around AOL's infrastructure. But I guess if you say AOL has a monolopy on you then there's nothing you can do.

[AliBail]

Yep, it basically has, plus to get cable modem here, costs £150 a year, plus u need to pay £100 installation for them to dig up your garden / drill a hole through your wall

And im only 16, which kinda leaves me screwed.

(And by the way: Yes I would switch to cable instantly, but AOL isn't that bad )

[JaredM]

Aren't you using the Euro?

[AliBail]

nope the UK doesn't participate in the single european currancy, as its crap and aint metric!!

By the way: How do i change the back ground colour of a command button, when the mouse goes over it? (Not click)

[JaredM]

What's the coversion?

Cause I only pay about $40 USD for mine monthly. I got it on a promotional offer with $0 setup fee.

[AliBail]

$40 = £30 (Approx)

[JaredM]

You have to change one of it's STYLE property from STANDARD to GRAPHICAL. Then in the MouseMove Event do this.

Private Sub Command1_MouseMove(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As Single, Y As Single)
    Command1.BackColor = vbRed
End Sub

[AliBail]

how do i change it back to original, when mouse is moved off (Soz about this, but i dont normally play around with mouse over things)

[JaredM]

How'd I figure you were going to ask that.

Private Sub Form_MouseMove(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As Single, Y As Single)
    Command1.BackColor = -2147483633
End Sub

Just flip it back to gray when the FORM get's the mousemove event, because the mouse move event is self-contained. So each control will have it, and if it's not on a control the container of the control will have it, and so forth.

[AliBail]

thanks for all your help.

[JaredM]

Not a problem.