place MDI child window in upper left?

[capitano]

Does anyone know how to place successive child windows of an MDI application in the upper left? As they pile on top of each other, they are staggered by default--each child is slightly below and to the right of the previous child. I want to modify this default behavior and place them directly on top of each other.

I have been doing this:
Dim xyLoc As new System.drawing.point()
xyLoc.X = 0
xyLoc.Y = 0
childWindow.Show()
childWindow.Location = xyLoc

...

However, I don't like this very much because you can see the window actually moving as it comes onto the screen. It gives a less-than-professional appearance.

Thanks for any help,
Bryan

 

[almi]

I did not have this problem, but try reversing the oreder to

childWindow.Show()
childWindow.Location = xyLoc

childWindow.Location = xyLoc
childWindow.Show()

and i think you are missing the line
childWindow.MDIParent = mainWindow

Hope I have been of help
ALMI

 

[capitano]

yup, I did those things and it still doesn't work. Actually, if I place the lines in this order:

childWindow.Location = xyLoc
childWindow.Show()

then, the child window does not move to the correct location at all. I think this is because you cannot specify a location for the child window before the window is shown. Anyway, that is my experience.

Thanks for the thoughts. Any other ideas?

Thank you,
Bryan Capitano

 

[almi]

Have experimented with the StartPosition Property and ???

ALMI