How to maintain two separate menus - one on the MDI and one on the child form ?

[hellocindy]

I'm using VB.net 2003. I know how to merge menus from the child on to the MDI form by setting the property MergeType on the MDI menu. However, I want to keep the menus separate.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,
hellocindy

 

[JohnH]

There isn't option for this with .Net 1.1.

 

[hellocindy]

Can I use such a development platform ~ VS 2003 + .NET 2.0 ?
That means, can I just upgrade to 2.0 framework and continue to use VS 2003 ?

 

[JohnH]

No, you can use .Net 2.0 and VS2005.

 

[Arg81]

Could you not keep the one menu, and maintain this when a child form is open?

I.E. I had my 1.1 app set so that when the MDI Parent (my Main Menu) was open, all the menu options were enabled, i.e. open a form.

When a child form was opened, even though the parent menu options were still visible, they were set to enabled = false.
Therefore the user could only use the child menu options that were shown.
When the child form was closed and it was back to the Main Menu, the main menu options were enabled again.

Actually the code could probably be changed so that when a child form is opened, it will set the main menu options to visible = false instead.


If this will help let me know and I'll dig out the code you will need.

Regards,