MDI Support by Form Control

The Kettic Form Control provides large flexible customization support. Here, the Kettic Form control provides full support of the MDI, multiple document interfaces, which is able to use a single menu bar among all child windows. With the multiple document interfaces support, the clutter can be reduced and the use of screen space would be more efficient. The MDI feature of the Form control is entirely capable of minimizing, maximizing, inactive states, and restoring.

The main feature of the Form control is to share a single menu bar among various child windows. The C# code below will demonstrate the process of adding a few Kettic Form instances to the multiple document interface container and utilizing themes to these child Form.

KetticForm form = new KetticForm();
form.Text = "MDI Child 1";
form.MdiParent = this;
form.ThemeName = "City";
form.Show();
 
form = new KetticForm();
form.Text = "MDI Child 2";
form.MdiParent = this;
form.ThemeName = "Office2007Blue";
form.Show();
 
form = new KetticForm();
form.Text = "MDI Child 3";
form.MdiParent = this;
form.ThemeName = "KetticMetro";
form.Show();

The Kettic Form Control allows users to hide the title bar automatically when maximize the MDI child Form, whose parent form will display the default MDI menu. The MDI menu includes controls that can execute the commands of the window on the MDI child window maximized. Furthermore, developers can build custom appearance to the MDI menu as demand.

By using the Kettic Menu control together with the Form control, we can easily merge the menu of the MDI child window with that of the MDI parent form.