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ALT+MINUS with MTI

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Topic: ALT+MINUS with MTI

Posted By: Ark42
Subject: ALT+MINUS with MTI
Date Posted: 30 March 2005 at 12:17pm

If you press ALT+MINUS you get the mdi child menu still, which has the Move option enabled. You can then move the window and mess up the view easily.

Replies:

Posted By: Ark42
Date Posted: 01 April 2005 at 4:47pm

BTW, you can see this problem in the command bars designer even, just press ALT+MINUS and then R for Restore, and the window will be restored, and redraw incorrectly.

Posted By: Oleg
Date Posted: 06 April 2005 at 4:54am

Please use code like:

int CChildFrame::OnCreate(LPCREATESTRUCT lpCreateStruct)
{
if (CMDIChildWnd::OnCreate(lpCreateStruct) == -1)
return -1;

CMenu* pMenu = GetSystemMenu(FALSE);

pMenu->RemoveMenu(SC_RESTORE, MF_BYCOMMAND);
pMenu->RemoveMenu(SC_MINIMIZE, MF_BYCOMMAND);
pMenu->RemoveMenu(SC_MAXIMIZE, MF_BYCOMMAND);
pMenu->RemoveMenu(SC_MOVE, MF_BYCOMMAND);
pMenu->RemoveMenu(SC_SIZE, MF_BYCOMMAND);

return 0;
}

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Oleg, Support Team
CODEJOCK SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS

Posted By: Ark42
Date Posted: 06 April 2005 at 12:24pm

This isn't much of an issue for me, because almost nobody knows about the ALT+Minus shortcut, but my current application has a menu option to toggle between normal MDI and MTI with tab groups. It works very nicely, I just had to go remove some of the window styles when switching to MTI, just like would be removed when the windows are added normally.
If I make this change though, the windows won't have the normal ALT+Minus menu if you click on the control box when in normal MDI mode.