Re: My.Application.OpenForms
- From: "RobinS" <RobinS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 19:26:01 -0800
Conservatism is not so bad. I tend to write things to help me
do my job. In one job, my boss was looking over my shoulder at
the app I'd written for myself, and wanted it. By the end of
the month, it had propagated to 50 people, and turned out to be
one of the most popular things I'd written. Pretty entertaining.
I haven't solved the problem you've discussed about sizing the
child form to the max size w/o maxinimizing it. Maybe your
solution is the best (and only).
I heard on one of the DotNetRocks podcasts that the guy who
wrote Salamander (a product, IIRC, that will turn your
installed apps back into code, so you should use an obfuscator)
has also managed to port .Net to a Unix machine. He said it's
working pretty good, but isn't ready for prime time. It was
interesting.
Sorry you're missing the VB6 IDE; I'm enjoying .Net. It was
worth the upgrade for the data binding alone as far as I'm
concerned. :-) And Generics. (OOP goes w/o saying.)
Good luck.
Robin S.
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"Garry" <garrygrolman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Why do you hesitate to have a form as your startup?Conservatism - an abominable affliction in a computer programmer.
The problem is not the Startup but I will remember your comment if I
do change back to frmMain as the start form.
Have you solved the problem of sizing a child form to fit the MDI
client rectangle BUT, the user must be able to move the form within
the parent form.. My solution is not elegant and I wonder how other
people solved it. Perhaps other programmers do not need to. I do not
want the child maximised, thats too easy, I want the child to
completely fill the available area and yet be 'moveable'.
I saw a solution to a forms collection in code with the Load event
being used in each child form to add it to a User Defined forms
collection. I have to consider this carefully. It was written for
VS2003 and the article specifically states that the 'openforms' is
available in 2005.
I say it again - things were so simple in VB6.
If only someone had uddated the VB6 GUI and come out with a non
Microsoft VB7 with the improved intellisense on vb2005.
A DOTNET framework for Linux or Mackintosh has not materalised so that
one of the much taunted features at the release of the .NET languages
back in 2002 has not been realised. Garbage Collection is simply not
mentioned any more. I am however, enjoying ADO.NET with SQLCE which
has replaced my original Access database. Very fast.
Anyway, thanks for your answers.
Garry
"RobinS" <RobinS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Unfortunately, I figured out MDI stuff by trial & error, and
the ones I've written are fairly simple. I do have MacDonald's
Windows Forms book; it has some basic info on MDI, but not tons.
You could always search Google.
I have the startup form for my project set to the parent form.
Why do you hesitate to have a form as your startup?
Robin S.
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"Garry" <garrygrolman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Ah Robin,
I just noticed that in the project Properties, Application tab, the
'enable application framework' checkbox is unchecked.
I did this to enable me to build an MDI application and use sub
Main() as the starting point for the code.
There is very little clear info on building MDI applications as
Microsoft presumably is not encouraging the MDI framework. (no
internal support for INI files either in vb2005). Just try to resize
an MDI child to fit the Client Rectangle in the parent form exactly.
It was all so simple in VB6
However, I wonder if you could 'point' me to relevant and truly
constructive info on MDI applications in VB2005 'cos I MAY have to
redefine my application.
Is there anything else that I may be missing from My.Application if
I leave this checkbox unchecked????? I assume that this checkbox is
the source of my present troubles.
I am re-writing completely from VB6, NOT converting and do not feel
comfortable with the frmMain as the StartUp object.
One of the disadvantages of unchecking the checkbox is that when
using Cntrl-Break to debug, the Sub Main() is always shown with the
green line background on Application.Run(frmMain)..
Any clear suggestions would be much appreciated.
Garry
"RobinS" <RobinS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I hate to ask the obvious, but is it a Windows Forms application
that you're trying to use it in?
Robin S.
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"Garry" <garrygrolman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Why is it that my installation od vs2005 will not accept
My.Application.OpenForms saying that it is not part of
My.Application???
Dim frm As Form
For Each frm In My.Application.OpenForms
Next frm
Garry
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