MDI form client area scroll bars question

[Eric Pascual]

Hello,

Is there any way to avoid the client area of a MDI window display scrollbars
when some child window goes partly outside ? I have poked a little in VCL
source code, and found that the client window (accessible through
ClientHandle) is created with a hard coded set of styles, including H and V
scroll bars. Since ther is no overidable method (like CreateParams) to
change this settings, you are stuck with them. The scrollbar properties of
the TForm itself has nothing to do with these client area scrollbars : I
tried to set their visible prop to false, without any noticeable effect
(which is perfectly normal, as far as I have understood which Windows basic
objects are created and involved).

The only solution I see at the moment is to write my own version of TForm,
based on the original VCL code.

Any suggestion on a simpler approach ?

Oh yes, just a detail : I'm speaking from a Delphi1 point of view :-)

Thanks in advance for any suggestion/information.

Regards
Eric