launch a form from within another

[Tammy]

How do I launch a form from within another?
The book I have only talks about MDI forms and I know that there should be a
way to do that
without the MDI form.

[Andreas Håkansson]

Tammy,

FormName f = new FormName();
f.Show();

HTH,

//Andreas

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How do I launch a form from within another?
The book I have only talks about MDI forms and I know that there should be a way to do that
without the MDI form.

[ilPostino]

Just create an instance of the form and show it;

eg: Form is called myForm.

MyForm myform2 = new MyForm();

myform2.Show();

or

myform2.ShowDialog();
-p

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How do I launch a form from within another?
The book I have only talks about MDI forms and I know that there should be a way to do that
without the MDI form.

[Tammy]

I was posting this question for a student.

The student is not asking how to load a from from another form. But, how to
load a form "inside" of another form. Not using MIDI. (The parent form
becomes the child form frame.)

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How do I launch a form from within another?
The book I have only talks about MDI forms and I know that there should be a way to do that
without the MDI form.

[phoenix]

You mean that the new form should be displayed inside the current form and
the current one shouldn't be an MDI one ? If so, I think you have to use
SetParent win32api. I don't think it would be directly possible in dotnet. I
don't see a use for it either.

Yves

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I was posting this question for a student.

The student is not asking how to load a from from another form. But, how to load a form "inside" of another form. Not using MIDI. (The parent form
becomes the child form frame.)

"Tammy" <td***@thewavz.com> wrote in message
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How do I launch a form from within another?
The book I have only talks about MDI forms and I know that there should

be a

way to do that
without the MDI form.

[Andreas Håkansson]

Tammy,

You will have to use the SetWindow API which is declared using C#
like this

public class Win32
{
private Win32()
{
}

[DllImport("user32.dll", SetLastError=true)]
public static extern IntPtr SetParent(
IntPtr childWindow, IntPtr newParent);
}

You would then use it like this (from inside a form) if you forexamples
wanted to open a form called ChildForm

ChildForm c = new ChildForm();
Win32.SetParent(c.Handle, this.Handle);
c.Show();

HTH,

//Andreas

"Tammy" <td***@thewavz.com> skrev i meddelandet
news:er**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

I was posting this question for a student.

The student is not asking how to load a from from another form. But, how to load a form "inside" of another form. Not using MIDI. (The parent form
becomes the child form frame.)

"Tammy" <td***@thewavz.com> wrote in message
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How do I launch a form from within another?
The book I have only talks about MDI forms and I know that there should

be a

way to do that
without the MDI form.

[Andreas Håkansson]

Phoeniz,

There is a good use for it and it is to host remote windows in your
own window for seamless integration. For example a plugin could provide
it's own configuration page which could be integrated into your applications
settings form. I do this in my extensibility framework and it is a very nice
way
to integrate functionality.

HTH,

//Andreas

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You mean that the new form should be displayed inside the current form and
the current one shouldn't be an MDI one ? If so, I think you have to use
SetParent win32api. I don't think it would be directly possible in dotnet. I don't see a use for it either.

Yves

"Tammy" <td***@thewavz.com> schreef in bericht
news:er**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

I was posting this question for a student.

The student is not asking how to load a from from another form. But,

how to

load a form "inside" of another form. Not using MIDI. (The parent form
becomes the child form frame.)

"Tammy" <td***@thewavz.com> wrote in message
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How do I launch a form from within another?
The book I have only talks about MDI forms and I know that there

should be

a

way to do that
without the MDI form.

[Chris A. R.]

// Play around with this format for a while and you'll find some intriguing
possibilities:

Form2 f2 = new Form2();
f2.TopLevel = false;
f2.Location = new Point( 100, 100 );
f2.FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyle.None;
f2.BackColor = SystemColors.ControlDark;
this.Controls.Add( f2 );
f2.Show();

Chris A.R.

"Tammy" <td***@thewavz.com> wrote in message
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How do I launch a form from within another?
The book I have only talks about MDI forms and I know that there should be a way to do that
without the MDI form.