Jabo

Hi,
My name's Jim, new to forums.

Now, down to the problem I'm having. I've created an MDI form, and have 2 child forms in my application thus far. I can get the one form that acts as my main form to show, and figured out how to put the form where I want it. The second form I don't want to show until the user clicks the appropriate menu item. This is where the problem lies.

I can't get the form to load no matter what I've tried. I run the program in Vstudio, and can see the form has focus in the project explorer, but it doesn't show. I've tried to move the form to MDI.top MDI.left, it doesn't show. I've minimized the main form and it minimizes. I've tried hiding the main form and it doesn't hide. I've tried showing the 2nd form from the MDI Load function, from the main form Load function and nothing.

I've scoured my text book, which is horribly lacking in information other than this is how you create an MDI form and child forms. Nothing that tells you how to manipulate forms. I've searched the MSDN website and everything they have on MDI is pretty much the same thing. Is there something painfully obvious that I'm missing?:eek:

Also of note, I've made Windows menus on each form, and when I try loading the 2nd form, the Windows menu isn't there. If I go back to the main form and view the Windows, the main form is the only one listed. It's like the form isn't loaded, but yet it has the focus in project explorer.

If you need some code I can provide it. And I appreciate ANY help you guys can give. I've also searched these forums before posting for MDI and found 1 post, which still didn't answer my question.