Interesting copy/paste dilema

[Infog]

In testing cut/copy/paste for my program, I realized that all forms that are a child of my MDIparent1 form lose their cut/copy/paste abilities.

Is there a common reason for this? Is this something that I need to implement?

I show the child forms by using something along these lines:

Form1.mdiparent = MDIparent1
Form1.show

I've found that the same Form1 does have cut/copy/paste in text boxes while not a MDIchild, by using the normal Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V.

[!NoItAll]

This is indeed curious - and I have no real help other than to suggest that you read the keystrokes yourself and put the text into the clipboard on your own. It only takes a couple lines of code in the keydown event for each textbox.

    
    Private Sub TextBox1_KeyDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventArgs) Handles TextBox1.KeyDown
        If e.Control = True Then
            If e.KeyCode = Keys.C Then
                Clipboard.SetText(TextBox1.SelectedText)
            ElseIf e.KeyCode = Keys.X Then
                Clipboard.SetText(TextBox1.SelectedText)
                TextBox1.SelectedText = String.Empty
            ElseIf e.KeyCode = Keys.V Then
                TextBox1.SelectedText = Clipboard.GetText
            ElseIf e.KeyCode = Keys.Z Then
                TextBox1.Undo()
            End If
        End If

    End Sub

I haven't test all of the above, but I think this covers all of the "basic" functions you want.

Des