Form within a form call?

[Leonard4]

I have a main form, call it my GUI for my app if you will, I have
another form, an about box. I want to call the about box when I click
a menu item but I don't know how to do it, and it seems so simple yet
its been eating me up for the better part of the afternoon. =(

Any help would be appreciated.

[Steve Willcock]

I assume you have set up the menu OK? If so then just put something like the
following in the menu item Click handler -

AboutForm aboutForm1 = new AboutForm();
aboutForm1.Show();

AboutForm is the class name for the about box form.

Steve

"Leonard4" <le******@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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I have a main form, call it my GUI for my app if you will, I have
another form, an about box. I want to call the about box when I click
a menu item but I don't know how to do it, and it seems so simple yet
its been eating me up for the better part of the afternoon. =(

Any help would be appreciated.

[Stoitcho Goutsev \(100\) [C# MVP]]

Hi Steve,

I'd like to make a little correction. Since it is about 'About' box usually
it is shown modal

Thus the code, IMHO, should be:

using(AboutForm aboutForm1 = new AboutForm())
{
aboutForm1.ShowDialog();
}

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Stoitcho Goutsev (100) [C# MVP]
"Steve Willcock" <st***@N-O-S-P-A-Mwillcockconsulting.com> wrote in message
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I assume you have set up the menu OK? If so then just put something like the following in the menu item Click handler -

AboutForm aboutForm1 = new AboutForm();
aboutForm1.Show();

AboutForm is the class name for the about box form.

Steve

"Leonard4" <le******@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:6d**************************@posting.google.c om...

I have a main form, call it my GUI for my app if you will, I have
another form, an about box. I want to call the about box when I click
a menu item but I don't know how to do it, and it seems so simple yet
its been eating me up for the better part of the afternoon. =(

Any help would be appreciated.