Mdi Child Size

[Daniel]

Why does VB ignore my width and height settings of my Mdi child form.

I have a parent form. On the left is a treeview with a splitter. I
want to open a child form up in the remaining space and size the
controls on it according to the width of the main form. So:

On the parent form:

Dim myFrm2 as Frm2

Frm2.MdiParent = Me
Frm2.Show()


On the child Form:
Private Sub Frm2_SizeChange d(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArg s) Handles MyBase.SizeChan ged


Listbox1.Width = Me.Width - 25
Listbox1.Height = Me.Height - 25

End Sub


What this does is resize the control to the size of the parent form not
the child form. Any ideas????

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[Daniel]

Re: Mdi Child Size

Daniel wrote:[color=blue]
> Why does VB ignore my width and height settings of my Mdi child form.
>
> I have a parent form. On the left is a treeview with a splitter. I
> want to open a child form up in the remaining space and size the
> controls on it according to the width of the main form. So:
>
> On the parent form:
>
> Dim myFrm2 as Frm2
>
> Frm2.MdiParent = Me
> Frm2.Show()
>
>
> On the child Form:
> Private Sub Frm2_SizeChange d(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As
> System.EventArg s) Handles MyBase.SizeChan ged
>
>
> Listbox1.Width = Me.Width - 25
> Listbox1.Height = Me.Height - 25
>
> End Sub
>
>
> What this does is resize the control to the size of the parent form not
> the child form. Any ideas????
>[/color]

This must be simple. Something I am overlooking ro doing wrong. I have
looked at the ClientSize property but still no luck. Any ideas?

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[Mick Doherty]

Re: Mdi Child Size

On my system, the steps you showed result in exactly the behaviour I would
expect, and not what you describe, but why do you not just anchor the
listbox instead of manually resizing?

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"Daniel" <daniel@madridm adridsoleado.co m> wrote in message
news:%23kiV%23w tgFHA.3436@tk2m sftngp13.phx.gb l...[color=blue]
> Daniel wrote:[color=green]
>> Why does VB ignore my width and height settings of my Mdi child form.
>>
>> I have a parent form. On the left is a treeview with a splitter. I want
>> to open a child form up in the remaining space and size the controls on
>> it according to the width of the main form. So:
>>
>> On the parent form:
>>
>> Dim myFrm2 as Frm2
>>
>> Frm2.MdiParent = Me
>> Frm2.Show()
>>
>>
>> On the child Form:
>> Private Sub Frm2_SizeChange d(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As
>> System.EventArg s) Handles MyBase.SizeChan ged
>>
>>
>> Listbox1.Width = Me.Width - 25
>> Listbox1.Height = Me.Height - 25
>>
>> End Sub
>>
>>
>> What this does is resize the control to the size of the parent form not
>> the child form. Any ideas????
>>[/color]
>
> This must be simple. Something I am overlooking ro doing wrong. I have
> looked at the ClientSize property but still no luck. Any ideas?
>
> --
>
> Daniel
> MCSE, MCP+I, MCP in Windows 2000/NT
>
> --------------------------------------
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[Daniel]

Re: Mdi Child Size

Mick Doherty wrote:[color=blue]
> On my system, the steps you showed result in exactly the behaviour I would
> expect, and not what you describe, but why do you not just anchor the
> listbox instead of manually resizing?
>[/color]

Anchor the listbox...?

So your system does not give the size of the parent form but that of the
child?

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Daniel
MCSE, MCP+I, MCP in Windows 2000/NT

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[Daniel]

Re: Mdi Child Size

Daniel wrote:[color=blue]
> Mick Doherty wrote:
>[color=green]
>> On my system, the steps you showed result in exactly the behaviour I
>> would expect, and not what you describe, but why do you not just
>> anchor the listbox instead of manually resizing?
>>[/color]
>
> Anchor the listbox...?
>
> So your system does not give the size of the parent form but that of the
> child?
>[/color]

OK solved it. I had put the change in size in the SizeChanged event of
the child. When I moved them to the Load event all was great. I guess
the previous symptoms i was getting were down to user error.

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Daniel
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