MDI Interface - Maximized child sub-apps with borders?

[lh37]

Hi everyone. I'm wondering if the following is possible:

I have a project that uses the MDI interface, and does not display a menu bar. When child sub-apps are maximized, the title bar and window buttons disappear (they would normally be displayed into the menu bar). However since there is no menu bar, is it possible at all to display the window border just like any other maximized window?

In comparison, the dialog object can maximize a child window, still retaining their title bars and border (although offset sometimes - that might be a bug?) - This is the sort of functionality I'm looking for.

Is this possible to achieve?

[Brovic]

Is that what you are looking for ?
A little hack using the Window Control Object.
MDI_child_resizing.mfa

[lh37]

Nope, this isn't what I was looking for, but thanks for your reply anyway.

If it helps, here's an image that describes what I'm trying to achieve:



(Sorry for the small image, it looks like the forum scaled it down - but it's still readable)

[Brovic]

Although I misunderstood again, that one try should be closer to your expectations.
Note that I used a quick and dirty trick to check if the subapp is maximized, there is certainly a smarter way to do it.

[lh37]

I had a look around the internet and even an experiment in Visual Basic but it seems to be default behaviour that a MDI child merges with the menu bar (when though I'd quite like it to retain the window's title bar)

Which makes your example Brovic, a very good trick for an application that doesn't make use of a menu bar, so thanks again!

I wonder why the DialogBox Object maximizes a child dialog retaining its title bar... I came across something to do with "menu merging" on the web, but there's hardly anything that states how one could reverse and disable that.

I did attempt to create my own "window manager" with Fusion but that was quite a challenge... but I might try that again.