Showing a new form

[tehon3299]

How can I show another form in my program? I.E. I am in frmMain and want to show frmTest and hide frmMain.

[bpayne111]

Dim myForm as New frmTest

myForm.Show

Me.Hide

[tehon3299]

Oh yeah...forgot about having to declare new forms in .NET. Thanks

[tehon3299]

How do you handle the click of the "x" in the top corner to close the application? How do you unload the application? I can do it with a button click but how do I do it with the "x"?

[Cywizz]

Your application will automatically close when you click on the "x" on the form.

Have you created your own form, with your own "x"?

[tehon3299]

No, I haven't but something must still be open. How do you close a form when a button is clicked? In VB6 I used Unload Me but in .NET you can't. What should i be doing?

[bpayne111]

Me.Close

[divil]

If you have used Application.Run() with no arguments to start a message loop for your program, you will need to manually call Application.Exit() when all your forms are closed and you are ready to terminate.

[dynamic_sysop]

if you want the whole application to close then use this...

    Private Sub Form1_Closed(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Closed
       End
   End Sub

if you want to unload just the 1 form then i'd use the way of showing the form as divil showed above "Dim frm as form"

then i'd do something like...

    Private Sub Form1_Closed(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Closed
       Set frm = nothing
   End Sub

[tehon3299]

OK...Thanks

[ThePentiumGuy]

[vB]Dim myForm as New frmTest

myForm.Show

Me.Hide [/vB]

 

Whats the name of the new form, myForm or frmTest?

im confused :confused:

 

or do u use MyForm to refer to frmTest?

[iebidan]

Dim myForm as FrmTest = New FrmTest

 

myForm is the name of a variable (container) for your form, FrmTest is the name of the class of your Form, New FrmTest in to create a new instance of the class (form) inside the container, in this case myForm