VB6 SDI Apps?

[SPRobson]

Hi

I've been working on an app that has so far consisted of only 5 or 6 forms. It's quite a simple app which has an activeX control on the main form. The main form drives the application (showing other forms via menu choices etc). What I want to do now is create an SDI application instead of having lots of forms with no particular structure. This will enable me to save my app and re-open. I've a fairly basic knowledge of VB 6 and was wondering what the best way is to achieve this? Anyone got any tips/tutorials etc?

Many thanks

Simon

 

[comaboy]

Make a new MDIform, set the other forms to be MDIchild in their properties. Copy the menu/toolbar from the main form to the new MDI parent and all the forms are now contained within the new MDI parent.

 

[SPRobson]

Hi,

Thanks for the prompt reply. That sounds good. But, my mainform that currently drives the app shows up to 3 other forms (each with their own menu bar/tool bar) as modeless. How do I keep the functionalities of these forms in an MDI enviorment? (do they retain their original tool/menu bars?)

Many thanks again

Simon

 

[comaboy]

Toolbars, yes - Menubars no. - ish!

The menubars get 'adopted' by the MDIform, and change according to the currently focused form.

I got around this by making form-specific functions toolbar only, and only kept project-wide functions Menubar.

Should a menu need to access a particular form function, make it Public on the form and call it from the MDIform menu.

HTH