form based appilcation design at runtime

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hi,

I have one parent form and 2 MDI child forms for that parent.

1)MDIMessagesChild Form
2)MDIEnvironmentChild Form.

Question number1) when we click on one of menu item of parent form these MDI forms should be opened and when we uncheck menuitem these childs should be dissapeared.
Question number2) when these child forms touchs the menu bar of parent form it should be part of menubar of parent and if touch any edge of parent window it should be part of that side of parent.

please suggest some code snippet for designing this kind of controls.

Posted 30-Jan-12 0:25am

pasupulety

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Espen Harlinn · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-30T00:37:00

Solution 1

1) Create the windows, and just toggle the visiblity of the windows.

2) Have a look at the following articles:
Visual Studio IDE like Dock Container[^]
Magic Library Docking Manager Designer[^]

Best regards
Espen Harlinn

Posted 30-Jan-12 0:37am

Espen Harlinn

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thatraja 30-Jan-12 8:31am

Nice articles, 5!

Espen Harlinn 30-Jan-12 8:31am

Thank you, thatraja!

pasupulety 31-Jan-12 9:16am

when i followed this link i have one DLL file how can we use the classes defined in this DLL. how can we use Docking properties in my project.

Espen Harlinn 31-Jan-12 9:42am

Right click in the ws toolbox, you can then add controls and groups to the visual studio toolbox by adding the dll.

pasupulety 1-Feb-12 1:47am

I can able to use the functionalities of DLL . but how can we modify the funtionalities in DLL to our project specific needs.

pasupulety 7-Feb-12 22:25pm

Thank you so much . these links helped us a lot in solving dockability problem. Thank you.

pasupulety 23-Feb-12 9:13am

hi sir,

i am able to get dockable windows by using above DLL but when i try to dock panel in the main form i am unable to see dockable windows as they are going back to the docked panel . how can i bring dockable windows to front.