Thanks Richard, Knowledge is handy. I am really looking to do the float,.
isn't there a native API way. I am sure you would have hit all that. we have
1. Remove menubar ( and Window Title )
2. Show menubar
3. Chk, add menu back..
Thats just the algorithm.. may not float, but can get things done..in close
HTH , you in some. I am going to try this over the weekend, if get a code
outline working, I will post.
"Richard Lewis Haggard" <HaggardAtWorldDotStdDotCom> wrote in message
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>I do not believe that this is supported anymore. I spent several hours
>trying to get it working a couple months back and gave up. I did figure out
>how to get several toolstrips into an application and allow them to dock to
>any side of the application window. It is not obvious. This is just from
>memory, so don't take this little code snippet literally, but here's my
>memory of how I did it.
>
> In my case, I wanted to let the user dock toolstrips on any side of the
> application. Toolstrips need a ToolStripPanel to dock in. A ToolStripPanel
> is good for just one edge in the application so I needed 4, one for each
> edge. There were declared as data members of the main form as:
>
> // Class
> public partial class MainForm : Form
> {
> // Data members /////////////////////////////////
> ToolStripPanel tspTop = new ToolStripPanel();
> ToolStripPanel tspBottom = new ToolStripPanel();
> ToolStripPanel tspLeft = new ToolStripPanel();
> ToolStripPanel tspRight = new ToolStripPanel();
>
> public MainForm()
> {
> // Add the ToolStripPanels to the form in reverse order.
> // The toolstrips must be added to the form's controls list
> // before InitializeComponent or the menu will display
> // UNDER the toolbars instead of the menu bar being at the
> // top of the application window.
> Controls.Add(tspRight);
> Controls.Add(tspLeft);
> Controls.Add(tspBottom);
> Controls.Add(tspTop);
>
> InitalizeComponent();
>
> // Now dock the toolstrip panels to the main window.
> tspTop.Dock = DockStyle.Top;
> tskBottom.Dock = DockStyle.Bottom;
> tspLeft.Dock = DockStyle.Left;
> tspRight.Dock = DockStyle.Right;
>
> // Now the toolstrips themselves can be inserted into the Top toolstrip
> panel.
> // Assume that the toolstrips tsStandard and tsDrawing were
> // created in the normal fashion in the designed.
> tspTop.Join( tsStandard );
> tspTop.Join( tsDrawing );
> }
>
> --
> Richard Lewis Haggard
>
www.Haggard-And-Associates.com > "VJ" <nonewsaddress@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:ObB4rA4gHHA.1240@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Is there any way I can make the main menu bar for a MDI windows forms
>> application, floating and hidden.. anybody know of the trick?
>>
>
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