Controling AutoCAD document from the VB MDI form menu

[Anonymous]

Please share your valuable time and knowledge....
Is there any way to open "ACAD document" as child form in VB MDI form? Actually I wanted to control AutoCAD document from the VB MDI form menu.

[Anonymous]

What kind of "control"?

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Ed
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[Anonymous]

Hi Ed Jobe
Just like our forms in vb which is under MDI means like child form.
In short I wanted to open whole AutoCAD as a form of my application which will be child form of my MDI form.

[Anonymous]

> I wanted to open whole AutoCAD as a form of my application which will be child form of my MDI form.

From the Department of Stupid Programming Tricks:

[MDIForm1 code]

Option Explicit

Private Declare Function SetParent Lib "user32" (ByVal hWndChild As Long, ByVal hWndNewParent As Long) As Long

Private m_hAcadParent As Long
Private m_acad As AutoCAD.AcadApplication

Private Sub MDIForm_Load()
Set m_acad = CreateObject("AutoCAD.Application")
m_hAcadParent = SetParent(m_acad.hWnd, Me.hWnd)
m_acad.Visible = True
End Sub

Private Sub MDIForm_Unload(Cancel As Integer)
m_acad.Visible = False
SetParent m_acad.hWnd, m_hAcadParent
m_acad.Quit
End Sub

[Anonymous]

hi fantum
LOT LOT LOT LOT LOT LOT's of thanks u solved my whole problem
Thank u very much

[Anonymous]

> u solved my whole problem

What I did was help you put an elephant in a closet. I don't expect anything good to come of it and you probably shouldn't either.