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Re: keeping an MDI child maximized

#2749
From: Chris Marriott
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 19:43
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In article <MUFFY.93Jan8122200@remarque.berkeley.edu> muffy@remarque.berkeley.edu writes:

>
>I have an MDI application which has several children.  One particular
>child is frequently maximized by the user.  When they select another
>child, though, the maximized child is sized back to its previous size.
>This is annoying, as they then have to re-maximize it.  Is there some
>way that I can tell it to stay maximized until the user resizes it
>explicitly?
>
>Thanks...
>
>Muffy
>--
>
>Muffy Barkocy                      | ~Never had a lot of faith in human beings/
>muffy@mica.berkeley.edu            |  but sometimes we manage to shine/like a
>"amorous inclinations"? Aha! I'm   |  light on a hill beaming out to space/from
>not "not straight," I'm *inclined*.|  somewhere hard to find~ - Bruce Cockburn
>

This is just the way the Window user interface works - annoying, isn't it?
You should be able to get around it by maximizing your window whenever it
receives a WM_ACTIVATE message.

Chris
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