Tonya:
If you have code in form1 for instance that Shows form2.....
Button_Click(blah blah) handles button1.click
Dim f as New form2
f.ShowDialog()
Then you close form2, you should be back at Form1. However, if you are
dimming a new Form1 in Form2, you'll have a new form. If Form1 is your
main form, you may well want to make it an MDI form so that no matter what,
you'll always come back to it when you close all of the other windows.
Every time you dim something as New, you have a totally new object. You can
declare a zillion different instances of Form1 that are totally distinct so
you need ot be aware of that when you are calling instances. Also, you may
want to use ShowDialog instead of Show depending on your specific situation,
which will show a form Modally instead of just showing it. In VB6, Form2
always stayed alive and it was never born as such in the code. You could
call its show method from anywhere. However, in VB.NET, let's say you have
Form1 in your project, but you use thsi code alone Form1.Show, it won't work
because it's never been instantiated. And since the form is 'born' it can
die which occurs when it's closed (how it actually dies is another story but
Garbage collection is a whole different issue).
Anyway, I hope I answered your question, but if not, let me know and I'll do
what I can.
HTH,
Bill
"Tonya" <an*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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Hi William,
thx for your input.
what i want to achieve is to be able to show a form
instance that has alreay been opened. When i open my
application formHomepage is opened as the starting form.
On this form i have 4 buttons that open 4 other forms.
When i click a button form2 is displayed and is shown
above formHomepage. However when i try to go back to my
homepage from form2 a new instance of formhomepage is
opened!!! Now i have 2 instances of the same form. This
is not what i want. I want to show the instance that is
already open. This is what i need help coding.
As u have probably guessed i am a beginner to VB.NET and
am finding things very difficult to get used to!!
any help or advise u could give is very much appreciated.
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Tonya:
I'm not putting down VB6, but there's nothing object
oriented about usingthings that just exist, that don't need to be
instantiated. When you callclose in .NET, it fires .Disposes shortly thereafter and
the form is nolonger available. You can choose to override the
closing events of yourforms and make them invisible, then instead of calling
show make themvisible again. However, you'd need to keep them all
scoped and this is notan approach I'd suggest. Instead, I'd recommend
creating objects to holdthose form variables that you need and pass them in to
the forms constructorwhich you can overload or once the form loads, set
whatever properties tothe given object's values.
The whole concept of managing forms is going to be quite
different then yourexperience with VB6 because forms and many other things
are radicaldepartures form the old way. You can create
objects/modules that hold allof this data and get you wherever you want to be but
IMHO, managing specificforms all over an application is something I'm not sad
to see go away.
If you can show me specifically what problem you're
having, I'll be glad totry to help you accomplish what you need.
HTH,
Bill
"Tonya" <s@m> wrote in message
news:02****************************@phx.gbl... Hi,
Does anyone have any example of how i can manage forms in my application??
I want to be able to reference my form instances that are currently open from other forms.
why cant i open and close forms as easily as in VB6??
i.e if i have formHomepage open and i click on a link to open form2 i use
Dim frm2 as new form2
frm2.show
however i wnat to be able to open the same formHomepage
instance from within my frm2 instance.
is there a way to do this? Does anyone have any code
example or managing form instabnces or any useful
articles for vb.net??
i would really appreciate any help
thx
.
