Managing display of a form

[Robert Dufour]

I have Form1 and Form2. Form2 has to be loaded in memory so that controls on
it can be controlled from Form1, so I declared it in the Form1 declaration
section. That works OK.
Now I just need to make form2 visible once and make it invisible again,
although it should be staying active in memory. If I have a global boolean
g_form2Shown then to show it I can, in a click event in form1 do

If not g_Form2Shown then
Form2.show 'the declaration was made in the form1 declaration section so
I don't have to dim the form as new here.
end if

However I don't want to unload Form2 from memory. It must continue to work
in the background. I just want to make it invisible. If I put a button on
Form 2 what code can I in it use to make it invisible but keep it working.

Thanks for any help
Bob

[Tim Patrick]

When you access forms globally by their name (as with "Form2.Show()") , you
are really accessing them via the My.Forms object (as in "My.Forms.Form2 .Show()").
Once you access them, they stay in memory until you specifically set them
to nothing.

Form2 = Nothing

Within Form2, you can use the "Me.Hide()" method to make the form invisible.

If you don't want to use the global references to a form, you can create
an instance of a form and manipulate it that way.

Dim instanceOfForm2 As Form2
...
instanceOfForm2 = New Form2
instanceOfForm2 .Show()
...
instanceOfForm2 .Hide()
...
instanceOfForm2 = Nothing

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Tim Patrick
Start-to-Finish Visual Basic 2005

I have Form1 and Form2. Form2 has to be loaded in memory so that
controls on
it can be controlled from Form1, so I declared it in the Form1
declaration
section. That works OK.
Now I just need to make form2 visible once and make it invisible
again,
although it should be staying active in memory. If I have a global
boolean
g_form2Shown then to show it I can, in a click event in form1 do
If not g_Form2Shown then
Form2.show 'the declaration was made in the form1 declaration
section so
I don't have to dim the form as new here.
end if

However I don't want to unload Form2 from memory. It must continue to
work in the background. I just want to make it invisible. If I put a
button on Form 2 what code can I in it use to make it invisible but
keep it working.

Thanks for any help
Bob

[rdufour]

Thanks,

Bob

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When you access forms globally by their name (as with "Form2.Show()") , you
are really accessing them via the My.Forms object (as in
"My.Forms.Form2 .Show()"). Once you access them, they stay in memory until
you specifically set them to nothing.

Form2 = Nothing

Within Form2, you can use the "Me.Hide()" method to make the form
invisible.

If you don't want to use the global references to a form, you can create
an instance of a form and manipulate it that way.

Dim instanceOfForm2 As Form2
...
instanceOfForm2 = New Form2
instanceOfForm2 .Show()
...
instanceOfForm2 .Hide()
...
instanceOfForm2 = Nothing

-----
Tim Patrick
Start-to-Finish Visual Basic 2005

>I have Form1 and Form2. Form2 has to be loaded in memory so that
controls on
it can be controlled from Form1, so I declared it in the Form1
declaration
section. That works OK.
Now I just need to make form2 visible once and make it invisible
again,
although it should be staying active in memory. If I have a global
boolean
g_form2Shown then to show it I can, in a click event in form1 do
If not g_Form2Shown then
Form2.show 'the declaration was made in the form1 declaration
section so
I don't have to dim the form as new here.
end if

However I don't want to unload Form2 from memory. It must continue to
work in the background. I just want to make it invisible. If I put a
button on Form 2 what code can I in it use to make it invisible but
keep it working.

Thanks for any help
Bob