Visual Basic, Making a child form much bigger than the parent MDI form

Making a child form much bigger than the parent MDI form

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James Hallo #1 / 6	Making a child form much bigger than the parent MDI form Is this possible? I've noticed that with an MDI application, it is impossible to make a child form much bigger than the screen size. How can I do this? You see, I want to make the child form the same size as the printer resolution so that I can get true WYSIWYG, but I'm unable to resize the child form past certain widths and heights which I presume are the screen size or near abouts. I've played around with different scale units, but that makes no difference. Hopefully I'd be able to size the child form to whatever I wanted, and then use the parent MDI window's scrollbars to move around the form. Is there some way using a picture box control on the form and making the form take its dimensions from that? I just can't see how this is done, and yet I've seen other VB apps that have managed it. Any help woould be greatly appreciated. I'm using VB5 Prof. with SP3. Cheers James ------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. James C. Hallows ==================== Homepage: http://www.--.com/ ~jchall Fox Two: http://www.--.com/ ~jchall/fox2.html "Fox Two - the ultimate Thrustmaster utility" Unable to see my homepage or send me e-mail? There may be a problem with my service provider. Check out: http://www.--*.com/ Or send me E-mail at my college address: -------------------------------------------------------------
Thu, 09 Nov 2000 03:00:00 GMT

Robert Scot #2 / 6	Making a child form much bigger than the parent MDI form I'm not aware of how to make an MDI child form bigger than the parent, but you can have standard forms in addition to child forms. The standard forms can be sized as you wish. Regards, Robert Quote: > Is this possible? > I've noticed that with an MDI application, it is impossible to make a child form much bigger than the screen size. How > can I do this? You see, I want to make the child form the same size as the printer resolution so that I can get true > WYSIWYG, but I'm unable to resize the child form past certain widths and heights which I presume are the screen size or > near abouts. I've played around with different scale units, but that makes no difference. Hopefully I'd be able to size > the child form to whatever I wanted, and then use the parent MDI window's scrollbars to move around the form. Is there > some way using a picture box control on the form and making the form take its dimensions from that? > I just can't see how this is done, and yet I've seen other VB apps that have managed it. > Any help woould be greatly appreciated. > I'm using VB5 Prof. with SP3. > Cheers > James > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr. James C. Hallows > ==================== > Homepage: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jchall > Fox Two: http://www.globalnet.co.uk/~jchall/fox2.html > "Fox Two - the ultimate Thrustmaster utility" > Unable to see my homepage or send me e-mail? There may be a > problem with my service provider. > Check out: http://www.globalnet.co.uk/info/service.html > Or send me E-mail at my college address: > -------------------------------------------------------------
Sat, 11 Nov 2000 03:00:00 GMT

James Hallo #3 / 6	Making a child form much bigger than the parent MDI form Thanks for all of these - I found a way using scrollable viewports. Quote: >Is this possible? >I've noticed that with an MDI application, it is impossible to make a child form much bigger than the screen size. How >can I do this? You see, I want to make the child form the same size as the printer resolution so that I can get true >WYSIWYG, but I'm unable to resize the child form past certain widths and heights which I presume are the screen size or >near abouts. I've played around with different scale units, but that makes no difference. Hopefully I'd be able to size >the child form to whatever I wanted, and then use the parent MDI window's scrollbars to move around the form. Is there >some way using a picture box control on the form and making the form take its dimensions from that? >I just can't see how this is done, and yet I've seen other VB apps that have managed it. >Any help woould be greatly appreciated. >I'm using VB5 Prof. with SP3. >Cheers >James >------------------------------------------------------------- > Dr. James C. Hallows > ==================== >Homepage: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jchall >Fox Two: http://www.globalnet.co.uk/~jchall/fox2.html > "Fox Two - the ultimate Thrustmaster utility" >Unable to see my homepage or send me e-mail? There may be a >problem with my service provider. >Check out: http://www.globalnet.co.uk/info/service.html >Or send me E-mail at my college address: >-------------------------------------------------------------
Tue, 14 Nov 2000 03:00:00 GMT

semi-newbi #4 / 6	Making a child form much bigger than the parent MDI form Quote: > Is this possible? > I've noticed that with an MDI application, it is impossible to make a > child form much bigger than the screen size. How can I do this ? You > see, I want to make the child form the same size as the printer resolution > so that I can get true WYSIWYG, but I'm unable to resize the child form > past certain widths and heights which I presume are the screen size or > near abouts. I've played around with different scale units, but that > makes no difference. Hopefully I'd be able to size the child form to > whatever I wanted, and then use the parent MDI window's scrollbars to > move around the form. Is there some way using a picture box control > on the form and making the form take its dimensions from that? > I just can't see how this is done, and yet I've seen other VB apps > that have managed it. > Any help woould be greatly appreciated. > I'm using VB5 Prof. with SP3. > Cheers > James Is it possible that you're talking about making a scrollable viewport ? Possibly in order to make a print preview window ? If so, there's an article on scrollable viewports in Microsoft's knowledge base, over on their web page. (If you're not already registered, you'll have to fill out a brief form, before they let you access their page.) If you're thinking of doing a print preview, similar to that in Word 6.0, then you should set aside a few weeks to do it. That's how long it took me :-) One hint: You don't need to use auto-redraw. It is way too slow at higher zoom rates (100% and up) if you do. Word 6.0 doesn't use it either.
Wed, 15 Nov 2000 03:00:00 GMT

BNave #5 / 6	Making a child form much bigger than the parent MDI form Quote: (James Hallows) writes: >I just can't see how this is done, and yet I've seen other VB apps that have >managed it. I made an app whose childs can be resized past the actual size of the parent, all that happens is that some vertical scroll bars appear, if this is what you are needing then let me know. I wasnt aware that this was not possible so i dont know how to tell you what i did, but i will send you the project of you wish. I use VB4 still! (until someone is kind enough to lend me VB5 for ahem, evaluation!) Update your bookmarks my VB home page has moved to: www.angelfire.com/me/VBmaster/
Sat, 25 Nov 2000 03:00:00 GMT

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