MDI Container + External Application?

[Deukalion]

Hey.

Is there any way to make the MDI Container hold an external program as a child? Say I want to develop a tool for something (a game editor in particular) and if I want to render it I want to use another program that just renders it inside the MDI Container (as a child)?

Is this possible? Or is the MDI Container limited to forms in its project?

[curt_c]

hi

Use the SetParent function in the Win32 api

or

System.Windows.Forms.Form.Parent in .NET


http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Aa302340


Curt

[Deukalion]

Please, show me an example.

Do the "program" have to have a certain class inherited to be able to be a child in the MDI Container? That is, I can't start any program and contain it within my program.

All those links you sent got me nowhere; I don't know what to look for. The only thing I found was this, which I don't know how to use:

        [DllImport("User32", CharSet = CharSet.Auto, ExactSpelling = true)]
        internal static extern IntPtr SetParent(IntPtr hWndChild, IntPtr hWndParent);

[Deukalion]

An example that doesn't work:

            Process p = new Process();
            // just a test app written in C# (do I need to add something to make it "MDI Child"?
            p.StartInfo.FileName = Directory.GetCurrentDirectory() + "\\test_app.exe"; p.Start();
            SetParent(p.Handle, this.Handle);