Hi! How do I make a window clien 1

[BaDi]

Hi!

How do I make a window client of my application's window?

Thanx in advance!

 

[JohnStep]

Do you mean an MDI?? Like a child window??


John Stephens

 

[BaDi]

Yeah, making the window a child-window. So it wil minimize with my app.'s window.. and stuff like that.

Any idea?

 

[GlynA]

1.Create an MDI form in your project. You can only have one of these.
2. In each of the forms which are to be children set the MDIChild property to true.

 

[BaDi]

Ok, this is with child windows created in VB as well.
But if I have a window of another app. eg. MSWord
I would like to make this window Client of my app's window.

 

[CajunCenturion]

You may also want to take a look at the SetParent API Call. It allows you to set the Parent Window of any window to another window.

Private Declare Function SetParent Lib "user32" (ByVal hWndChild As Long, ByVal hWndNewParent As Long) As Long

Good Luck
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[BaDi]

Thanx!

But now, when I do this the external window doesn't really behave like a child window should do. It does minimize when I minimize my form.. only a fraction later. And when I maximize my form again, the external window maximizes first and then my form is placed on top. Also: the external window doesn't stay in the borders of my form.

What can I do to make it a perfect Client window?

Thanx in advance!!