Hiding Main Form?

[Lanc1988]

Is it possible to hide the main form when another form is open?

 

 

Example, is there a code I can place on my frmUpdater.vb form that will hide (not close) the main form window, then once the frmUpdater.vb form is closed it will make the main form visible again?

[sjn78]

You may have this on a button click event on your main form.

 

dim f as new frmUpdater

 

me.visible = false ' Hides main form

f.show ' Opens new form

me.visble = true ' Shows main form once the new form is closed

[pendragon]

me.hide()
f.ShowDialog()
me.show()

 

If you use f.show then when the form has been shown the program will continue executing the function and will show itself again.

[Lanc1988]

i put the following under the button code:

 

'Run Updater Button

'This code makes it load the updater form

Dim frmUpdater As New frmUpdater

Me.Visible = False ' Hides main form

frmUpdater.Show() ' Opens new form

 

 

 

and then I tried putting the following on the Form_Load code for the Updater form:

 

'Displays Main Form once Updater is closed

Me.Visible = True

 

 

 

But im having a problem, the main form wont show when i close the updater, so where should the code to redisplay the main window be instead of in the Form_Load of the updater form?

[Lanc1988]

i tried changing the code on the Updater form from Me.Visible to Form1.Visible and it says it requires an object reference.

[mutant]

Do you want to show frmUpdater as a dialog? If yes then simply pass in your main form as the first paramter into the ShowDialog method, and then from your frmUpdater you can access the form you passed in using the Owner property.

 

If you don't want to show it as a dialog, then the best way would be to edit the constructor of your frmUpdater to accept an instance of your main form, assign the passed in instance to a variable and use it from there.

[Lanc1988]

but all i want to happen is to just 'hide' the main form while a certain form (Updater) is open and then have the main form reappear when the Updater is closed.

[pendragon]

In your button code

 

Dim frmUpdater As New frmUpdater
Me.Hide()
frmUpdater.ShowDialog()
Me.Show()

[Lanc1988]

thank you! :D it works very good.