Overload NEW on Form?

[Tom]

How is the best way to overload the New constructor for a form? For
instance, I want to be able to pass things to the constructor, or just
default with the plain New. Maybe say something like:

Dim x as New MyForm(parm01, parm02)

Should I just override new? What is the best way to do this for a form? (The
reason I am asking is it appears that the New for a form does a number of
things, like initialize controls, etc)

Tom

[Chris Dunaway]

On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 16:16:31 -0500, Tom wrote:

How is the best way to overload the New constructor for a form? For
instance, I want to be able to pass things to the constructor, or just
default with the plain New. Maybe say something like:

Dim x as New MyForm(parm01, parm02)

Should I just override new? What is the best way to do this for a form? (The
reason I am asking is it appears that the New for a form does a number of
things, like initialize controls, etc)

Tom

Just overload but call the other constructor. Note that I used the
reserved word MyClass. You can also just call New().

Public Sub New(arg1 As integer, arg2 As string)
MyClass.New() 'Call the original constructor
'Do stuff with the arguments here.
End Sub

But there are other ways to do it as well. Perhaps someone knows a better
way?

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* "Tom" <to*@nospam.com > scripsit:

How is the best way to overload the New constructor for a form? For
instance, I want to be able to pass things to the constructor, or just
default with the plain New. Maybe say something like:

Dim x as New MyForm(parm01, parm02)

Should I just override new? What is the best way to do this for a form? (The
reason I am asking is it appears that the New for a form does a number of
things, like initialize controls, etc)

Just define a parameterized constructor:

\\\
Public Sub New(ByVal i As Integer, ByVal j As Integer)
MyBase.New() ' Call parameterless ctor of the base class.
m_i = i
m_j = j