Can you create a function Form?

[Denaes]

I'm looking to create what a message box does.

 

A form which pops up (should be modal), allows a person to insert text, make selections, choose dates, and those results are returned to the parent form.

 

Example: I want to do a Date Picker calander as a popup window. I want the window to start up with the current date (pased from the form) selected. Red dates will be inapplicable. The user selects dates to add to an array of dates. When the Form is finished, it returns that array as a result.

 

I've needed to do this sort of thing on a few occasions (popup Customer Chooser, which returns the Customer Number for example), but I've always had to cheat to get around it. I've used a public module to hold the information, but that is very annoying, bad practice and you have to pay attention to clearing it out, adding to it, etc.

 

What is the proper way to do this?

[mutant]

You can do it the way all modal dialogs in .NET do it. Set up properties and private variables that will be retunred through the properties, when the dialog is closed you will be able to access the properties of the form because unlike normal forms, modal forms are not disposed when the Close method is used on them.

[Bucky]

If you wanted, you could also make the input controls Public and then access their

values directly from the parent form after the modal form closes.

[Malfunction]

But this is rather dirty ;)

[Arch4ngel]

I agree ! Teacher's always told us... at least if you want to access a variable (or anything)... do it in a property ! (they were crying each time used direct variable :P)

 

 

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