Parent and child forms

sarah_malik

Hello everybody, I need to make the client size of a parent form FIXED, that is no scroll bars appear when moving the child around the parent. I tried to make the auto scroll bar property in parent form set to false but it doesn't work. thanks in advance!

CompMan44

I tried out what you described with the following code:

using System.Windows.Forms;

class Form1: Form
{
public Form1()
{
this.IsMdiContainer = true;

  this.AutoScroll = false;

  Form f = new Form();
  f.MdiParent = this;
  f.Show();

}

public static void Main (string[] args)
{
Application.Run(new Form1());
}
}

Of course, the scrollbars still appear. According to the documentation for Form.AutoScroll, "If this property is set to true, scroll bars are displayed on the form if any controls are located outside the form's client region." I would take this to mean that AutoScroll only applies to controls owned by the form, not MDI children. Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

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sarah_malik

CompMan44 wrote:

I would take this to mean that AutoScroll only applies to controls owned by the form, not MDI children.

I think you are right, thanks CompMan44:)