DEPARTMENT OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION

ANDHRA PRADESH

Name of the Faculty : NAND KISHORE SINGH

Designation : LECTURER
Branch : DCCP
Institute : SGMGPT, Abdullapurmet
Year/Semester : V
Subject : VISUAL BASIC-I
Subject Code : CCP-503
Topic : MDI Applications and
Graphics
Duration : 50 Minutes
Sub-Topic : Creation of MDI Applications
Teaching Aids : PPT, Animations and Photographs

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 Recap
 Parent Form is container for Child Forms
 Menus & Buttons only appear on Parent Form
 Menus of selected Child forms appear on
Parent form
 Only one form can be active at a time
 MDI Form closes all Child Forms

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 Objectives
On completion of this period, you will be able
to know:

 Creation of MDI Applications with an example

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 MDI Applications

Creating MDl Application

 We create a simple MDI application with
two child forms
 A basic MDI application needs at least
two forms:
 One MDI form and a child form

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 MDI Applications

 To create the MDI form, the “Add MDI Form”

option is chosen from the “Project menu”

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MDI Applications

Note: An application can have only one MDl

form. If a project already has a MDI form, the
Add MDl Form command on the Project menu
is unavailable.

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MDI Applications

To create a MDI child form, we select the

“Add Form” option of the Project menu
(or open an existing one) and set its
“MDI Child property to True”

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MDI Applications

Visual Basic displays special icons in the

Project Explorer for the MDI and MDI child
forms

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MDI Applications

The MDIForm requires a menu, which helps

us access the child forms.

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MDI Applications
The following figures help us reinforce this
concept

Fig.1
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MDI Applications

In the code window of the MDI form

we write statements to load the
respective form when the Submenu
options are clicked.

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 MDI Applications

For example, refer Figure 1, to load

the “Input Form” the following line of
code needs to be included in the
click event of the submenu option:
“Load Input_frm”

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MDI Applications

In the code window of the child form

write code to display an inputbox,
which accepts name (Input Box
function) and displays a message
(MsgBox function).

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MDI Applications
When this MDl application is run get
to see the following screens:

Fig.2
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MDI Applications

Fig.3

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MDI Applications
Figure shows the child forms “Input form” and
“Fun form” within the parent form MDIform1

Fig.4
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 Summary
 Created MDI application by taking MDI form
and two child forms
 Access to child forms is done through Menus

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 Quiz
1. MDI stands for ____________

 Many Development Interface

 Multiple Document Interface
 Multiple Development Interface
 B&C

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 Frequently Asked Questions
1. Expand MDI and write the steps to create MDI
Form ?

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 Assignment
1. Create an MDI form with 4 child forms without
any functionality

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