MDI form ribbon problem

[bjfeilmeier]

Hello,

I have a weird problem. I have a MDI form with a Krypton Ribbon on top. The ribbon looks great and works perfectly except that for some reason when I open 2 or more docs, then close them, I get a weird toolbar above the Krypton ribbon (see attached image). Has anyone else seen this? Any ideas on how to fix it?

Thanks!

Brad

[Hobbes]

Try using the ribbon on a krypton form not a standard windows form, see if that helps

[bjfeilmeier]

Thanks for the reply Hobbes. I took your advice and switched to the Krypton Form and everything worked great until I realized that the MDI form will not show correctly (it says it's loaded and I can open/close it, but the richtextbox control or form is not seen). So the question is: do I have to use a Krypton Form for my MDI child also?

Below is the code I'm using to create the new MDI child:

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    Private Sub NewFile()
        childFormsCount += 1
        Dim childForm As New fEditor
        childForm.Text = "Unsaved Document " & childFormsCount
        childForm.MdiParent = Me
        childForm.Show()
    End Sub


This worked fine using the standard VS forms. This is getting to be a lot of rewriting and I'm thinking about asking for my money back. What's your thoughts?

Thanks again!

[bjfeilmeier]

Hi Hobbes, this is going to sound stupid, but I figured out the problem. Turns out that the Krypton form comes with a panel that I didn't notice that was hiding the MDI area. Once I deleted the panel, everything was fine. I'm only posting this in case someone else runs into this issue (and hopefully will be smarter than me and delete the panel without having to read this post ).

Thanks again for your help!

[Hobbes]

sorry just now read your post about the mdi and krypton forms, was gonna say to delete the panel, but you found that out already.

Cheers, glad it works better for you.

[Jjavierrg]

Try to add into your MDI Parent form a MenuStrip and set it to .visible = false.

That works for me!