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In article <727643543snz@chrism.demon.co.uk> chris@chrism.demon.co.uk writes:
>In article <dtam.727607040@sfu.ca> dtam@fraser.sfu.ca writes:
>
>>I have a toolbar implemented in my MDI application. However, my child windows
>>will ovelap the toolbar. Can anyone tell me how to resize the MDI client
>>windows so that it will not ovelapped with the toolbar. The MDI frame window is
>>the parent of both the toolbar window and the MDI client window!!
>>
>
>The answer is to have the Toolbar window as a child of the FRAME window,
>not of the MDI client.  All you have to do then is process the WM_SIZE
>message in the frame window proc, and resize/move the MDI client window
>yourself, rather than passing WM_SIZE on to DefFrameProc, which resizes
>the MDI client to fill the client area of the frame window.
>

1. Making a window be a son of the MDI frame is not trivial in OWL..
   I found two ways to do this:
    a. Create the child window with a null parent, then call SetParent
       to set the parent be the MDI window. (not touching the child).
    b. In the constructor of toolbar call SetFlags( WB_MDICHILD, 0).

2. All child windows that process WM_SIZE must also call the default WM_SIZE
   method to make the MDI work correctly.

Good luck !    (you'll need much if your working in MSwindows..)
  Baruch