mdi child is hiding behind parent's controls

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i have two forms form1 and form2
form1 is mdi parent and form2 is its child
in form1 i have a richtextbox docked on it
so now when the mdi child opens
it remains hidden behind the richtextbox......
plzzz help !!!

Posted 6-Sep-11 9:10am

Gaurav Saini313

Updated 6-Sep-11 9:16am

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Wendelius · Answer 1 · 2011-09-06T09:35:00

Solution 1

Placing a control on MDIParent in the area which is reserved for mdi children isn't good UI practice. If you need to constantly show something, consider adding necessary controls to toolstrip, status bar or for example a floating toolbox window etc.

Posted 6-Sep-11 9:35am

Wendelius

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 7-Sep-11 1:52am

This is of course correct, my 5, but the root of the problem is MDI itself.
Don't you think so? Please see my answer.
--SA

Wendelius 7-Sep-11 1:59am

Thanks SA.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 2 · 2011-09-06T19:51:00

Solution 3

How much longer you guys are going to torture yourself and scare off your customers with MDI? This is evil.

Please see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_document_interface#Disadvantages[^],
Question on using MDI windows in WPF[^],
MDIContainer giving error[^].

—SA

Posted 6-Sep-11 19:51pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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Wendelius 7-Sep-11 2:00am

This is very true. +5 However I share the OP's pain because some of the applications to be maintained are so old that MDI was the best there was at that time...

If this is a new application then I guess there's no excuses :)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 7-Sep-11 2:06am

Thank you, Wika.
You see, even if there are excuses... Customers want functionality and good usability, not excuses. :-)
--SA

Wendelius 7-Sep-11 2:08am

Yep, and a low price :)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 7-Sep-11 2:14am

Aha, with a smile...
--SA

arashmobileboy · Answer 3 · 2012-11-26T08:11:00

Solution 4

Although This question asked 1 year ago,i answer this.because it is question of many programmer.

thats so simple,you can do a trick and put all your controls on a child form and call that in mdi load event and whenever you want.

Posted 26-Nov-12 8:11am

arashmobileboy

Dirk C De Winnaar · Answer 4 · 2011-09-06T10:08:00

Solution 2

Have you tried to use: this.TopMost = true; on the midi-child?

Posted 6-Sep-11 10:08am

Dirk C De Winnaar

Updated 6-Sep-11 19:32pm

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