moving from one form to another and closing the previous one

[pangsans]

hello!
i need help with this issue.i have created a form and have designed a button to take me to another form.after the second form loads,i want to close the first form without affecting the second.kindly help me

[slapshock]

hello!
i need help with this issue.i have created a form and have designed a button to take me to another form.after the second form loads,i want to close the first form without affecting the second.kindly help me

Try this code:

in your button: put this code..

form2.show();
form1.close();
 

form2 is the second form

[pangsans]

Try this code:

in your button: put this code..

form2.show();
form1.close();

form2 is the second form

this is isnt working for me.because i ve declared an instance of the second form in the first and invoke it from there.so when i close the first one,the second one also closes.am desperate.please help

[Frinavale]

this is isnt working for me.because i ve declared an instance of the second form in the first and invoke it from there.so when i close the first one,the second one also closes.am desperate.please help

Don't use Form1.close()...try Form1.hide() instead.

The reason is because the Close() method closes the form (destroys it) and since you've declared your Form2 inside Form1 this destroys the object you're trying to work with too..

See MSDN for more information on
the Form.Close() method
and
the Form.Hide() method


Cheers!

-Frinny

[Plater]

What I would do is create a STATIC class with public static member for each of your forms:

public static class myManager
{
   public static Form1 myform1;
   public static Form2 myform2;
 
   public static void CreateShowForm1()
   {
      if(myform1!=null)
      {
         myform1.Show();
      }
      else
      {
         myform1=new Form1();
         myform1.Show();
      }
   }
   public static void CreateShowForm2()
   {
      if(myform2!=null)
      {
         myform2.Show();
      }
      else
      {
         myform2=new Form2();
         myform2.Show();
      }
   }
   public static void DestroyForm1()
   {
      if(myform1!=null)
      {
         myform1.Close();
         myform1.Dispose();
         myform1=null;
      }
   }
   public static void DestroyForm2()
   {
      if(myform2!=null)
      {
         myform2.Close();
         myform2.Dispose();
         myform2=null;
      }
   }
}
 

Now you can call these methods from anywhere. If you need special constructors for your forms, you can just overload these functions to also take parameters that you can pass in to the constructors.

[pangsans]

Thanks a lot.am glad i started this discussion.million thanks to you.i ll try it out!

thank u! ;-)