MDI titlebar text

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AnikSol

Hello,

With reference to an MDI form in VB 2005,
During the runtime, the Title bar of the MDI form shows the mdi.text plus
the childform.text
So if the MDIForm.text = "Main"
and if the childform.text = "Products" or "Orders" etc
then at runtime, the MDIform titlebar display " Main [Products]"

Is there anyway that the MDIform titlebar would only show its text only (ie,
only "Main") and not append the childform.text to the title bar

thanks
 
Hi AnikSol,

When an MDI child form is maximized, its titlebar text is added to the
titlebar of its MDI parent form. This behavior is by design.

If you don't want to display the titlebar text of the MDI child form in the
MDI parent's titlebar, a simple workaround would be to set the Text
property of the MDI child form to an empty string when it is maximized. The
following is a sample.

public partial class MDIChildForm:Form
{
public MDIChildForm()
{
InitializeComponent();
this.title = this.Text;
this.SizeChanged += new EventHandler(MDIChildForm_SizeChanged);
}

private string title = "";

void MDIChildForm_SizeChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (this.WindowState == FormWindowState.Maximized)
{
this.Text = "";
}
else
{
this.Text = title;
}
}
}

Hope this helps.
If you have anything unclear, please feel free to let me know.


Sincerely,
Linda Liu
Microsoft Online Community Support

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Hi AnikSol,

Sorry for showing you the sample in C#. I am used to C# : )

The following is a VB version.

Public Class MDIChildForm

Private title As String = ""

Private Sub MDIChildForm_SizeChanged(ByVal sender As System.Object,
ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.SizeChanged
If (Me.WindowState = FormWindowState.Maximized) Then
Me.Text = ""
Else
Me.Text = title
End If
End Sub

Private Sub MDIChildForm_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
title = Me.Text
End Sub
End Class

Hope this helps.
If you have anything unclear, please feel free to let me know.



Sincerely,
Linda Liu
Microsoft Online Community Support
 
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