Problems removing text

[RBirney]

I have a program (code below) which has a main screen with a button, a
tabcontrol and a couple of tab pages. I have two pre written forms that i
then put onto the tab pages. The problem i have is when i exit the forms in
the tabs i want to clear the text out of the tabpage (which is set in the
code below when they are loaded) but i cannot do it from the form as it won't
allow me at it and i have no way of actioning it back on the main screen when
one of the forms is exited.
Any help?

Public Class Form1
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form

" Windows Form Designer generated code "

Dim frm2 As New Form2
Dim frm3 As New Form3

Private Sub cmdLoad2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles cmdLoad2.Click

frm2.TopLevel = False
frm2.Size = New Size(730, 340)
frm2.Visible = True
TabPage1.Controls.Add(frm2)

frm3.TopLevel = False
frm3.Size = New Size(730, 340)
frm3.Visible = True
TabPage2.Controls.Add(frm3)

TabPage1.Text = "This is form 2"
TabPage2.Text = "This is form 3"

End Sub

End Class

[Cor Ligthert]

RBirney,

Any control that you add, can as well be removed with remove, so seeing your
code is that my first answer.

I hope this helps,

Cor

[jo0ls]

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news:C6**********************************@microsof t.com:

I have a program (code below) which has a main screen with a button, a
tabcontrol and a couple of tab pages. I have two pre written forms
that i then put onto the tab pages. The problem i have is when i exit
the forms in the tabs i want to clear the text out of the tabpage
(which is set in the code below when they are loaded) but i cannot do
it from the form as it won't allow me at it and i have no way of
actioning it back on the main screen when one of the forms is exited.
Any help?

Public Class Form1
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form

" Windows Form Designer generated code "

Dim frm2 As New Form2
Dim frm3 As New Form3

Private Sub cmdLoad2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e
As
System.EventArgs) Handles cmdLoad2.Click

frm2.TopLevel = False
frm2.Size = New Size(730, 340)
frm2.Visible = True
TabPage1.Controls.Add(frm2)

frm3.TopLevel = False
frm3.Size = New Size(730, 340)
frm3.Visible = True
TabPage2.Controls.Add(frm3)

TabPage1.Text = "This is form 2"
TabPage2.Text = "This is form 3"

End Sub

End Class

Put this on the forms. The parent control of the form is the tab page it
is on, so parent.text is the property you want to access. Overriding the
onclosing event will catch the form as it closes.

Protected Overrides Sub OnClosing(ByVal e As
System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs)
Parent.Text = ""
End Sub

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"RBirney" <RB*****@discussions.microsoft.com> schrieb:

I have a program (code below) which has a main screen with a button, a
tabcontrol and a couple of tab pages. I have two pre written forms that i
then put onto the tab pages. The problem i have is when i exit the forms
in
the tabs i want to clear the text out of the tabpage (which is set in the
code below when they are loaded) but i cannot do it from the form as it
won't
allow me at it and i have no way of actioning it back on the main screen
when
one of the forms is exited.

Public Class Form1
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form

" Windows Form Designer generated code "

Dim frm2 As New Form2
Dim frm3 As New Form3

Private Sub cmdLoad2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles cmdLoad2.Click

frm2.TopLevel = False

I suggest to use usercontrols instead of forms for the tabpages. Define an
event in your usercontrol that is raised when the usercontrol closes. In
the form, add a handler to the usercontrol's event to get notified when the
control closes. In the close event, remove the control from the tabpage's
'Controls' collection and remove the 'TabPage' from the tabcontrol's
'TabPages' collection.

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