Is there any way of centering a mdi child in a mdi parent.  The
startupposition property does not work must i use code?

Thomas Lane

Thomas,

You will have to center the mdi child manually.

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MDIChild forms as designed to position and size themselves. You should try not to interfere with them if you want to follow the design guidelines. If you really have to then you must call the form's Move method in the Form_Load event.

Regards,
Simon Jones
MillStream Design
Independent IT Consultants

Thomas,   You can programmatically move the child form to  center which is
not too hard (if you need code, let me know and I will see if I can find the
code I use) or you can use a resize control which will do it for you (Like
our AgFastform - Demo available at http://www.AgendumSoftware.com)
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Todd B -  Agendum Software
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Thomas, here is a subroutine that I use to centre my MDI child forms.
My child forms have a BorderStyle = 1 ' fixed single.

Regards, Graeme

Public Sub CentreOnMDI(frm As Form)
' centre frm on frmMain's client area
    On Error Resume Next
    With frm
        .Move Top:=(mdiFormName.ScaleHeight - .Height) \ 2, _
              Left:=(mdiFormName.ScaleWidth - .Width) \ 2
    End With
End Sub