> Are MDI forms still being used or are they fairly redundant these days.
We use them extensively. From our point of view (accounting software) MDI
provides a simple way to group zillions of different forms into one
umbrella that is simply managed and easy to understand by the users.
Apart from having all these different forms sitting on the destop and
making it nearly impossible to find anything I haven't been able to think
up a better way to go.
> What is the easiest way to make sure that your whole app only
> gets one icon
> in the taskbar and when you minimise second and third etc forms that the
> whole application minimises?
Careful management of the window creation properties. You can set various
compinations of the WS_ and WS_EX_ settings to control visiability is
various ways, but given that there are three places to see each windows
(task bar, Ctrl+Tab popup and Windows NT/2000 process manager) its becomes
a chalenge to get your windows appearing in the correct places and not
where they shouldn't be.
Cheers, Max.
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