Introducing Windows and Canvases
These topics contain information about windows and canvases in your Forms applications:
About Canvases
Resizing a Canvas in the Layout Editor
Deleting a Canvas
About Windows
About MDI and SDI Windows
About Window Modality
About the Root Window
Creating a Window
About the Console
Associating an Icon with a Window
About Scrolling Windows
Creating a Modal Dialog Window
Displaying and Closing a Window in Response to Navigation
Displaying and Closing a Window Programmatically
Defining a Primary Canvas
Showing and Hiding a Canvas Programmatically
Moving and Resizing a Window Programmatically
Assigning Multiple Content Canvases to a Window
Events that Change the Current Content Canvas
Replacing the Current Content Canvas Programmatically
Creating a Toolbar Canvas
Creating a Toolbar Canvas for the MDI Window
Creating Multiple Toolbar Canvases for the Same Window
About Stacked Canvases
Creating a Stacked Canvas
Editing a Stacked Canvas in the Layout Editor
Working with the Raise on Entry Canvas Property
About Stacking Order
Manipulating a stacked Canvas Programmatically
Using Triggers to Respond to Window Events at Runtime
Displaying Canvases
About Modal Dialog Windows
About Content Canvases
About Views
Adjusting the View in the Layout Editor
About Content Canvases in the Stacking Order
Closing a Modal Dialog Window
Creating a Canvas
Creating a Tab Canvas
Creating a Tab Page
About Canvas Types
Setting a Canvas' Visual Attributes in the Layout Editor
Deleting a Tab Page
Displaying a Modal Dialog Window
Displaying a Tab Canvas
Displaying a Content Canvas' Stacked Views in the Layout Editor
Introducing Windows and Canvases
Moving an Item to Another Tab Page
Moving a Tab Canvas
Placing an Item on a Tab Page
Resizing a Tab Canvas
Scrolling a Window Programmatically
Creating a Scrolling Window
How Stacking Order Changes at Runtime
Working with Stacked and Tab Canvases in the Layout Editor
About Tab Canvases
About Tab Pages
About Toolbar Canvases
Manipulating a Tab Canvas Programmatically
Manipulating a Tab Canvas at Runtime
Reordering Tab Pages
Switching Tab Pages at Design Time
About Window Types