jberman

I am a new VB programmer and was wondering if somone could give me some help.

I have a form that loads inside another form. I guess this form is the child form.
Whenever the child form is maximized the icon on the top left of the child form's border jumps onto the parent form's main menu. This is not a problem when only one child form is open but when more than one is maximized and both of their icons jump onto the parent forms main menu it creates a bug. Even after closing both forms one of the icons remains on the main menu and it messes up the entire menu. I am including a couple screenshots of my problem. Does anyone know a way I can access that windows file menu property and play with it? I actually tried to minimize the other window whenever another one was maximized but it did not work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


After the first child form is opened and maximized:


After the second child form is opened and maximized:


After both forms are closed this is the bug that is created on the parent form's main menu:



Thx again for any help.

Josh

Rory

This is a bug in XP or rather the way in which VB runtimes draw forms. It's not just Child forms - under previous versions, if you created a fixed border form and "deleted" the icon, the window would just be a caption and a close button. Not on XP: it doesn't seem to like having "no icon". There may be some obscure KB fix for it, but I wouldn't bother - it's not a bug in your code, so it's not your problem.