Help with opening and closing forms

Dwizz · April 20th, 2005, 04:10 AM

Hello,
I have a problem which I have now been working on for the past day and a half, I have googled and seen previous posts (http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=28394), and yet I am still having trouble getting my head around it.
The problem is that on a click of a button I would like to OPEN a form called FORM2 and close a form called FORM1. I apologise if this post is trivial, its just that I've only recently started programming in VB.NET, and I would be greatful if anyone could shed some light or help me resolve my problem. Below is the code for opening FORM2 I will attempt to write the code for closing FORM1.

Code:

private Form2 as ReturnObject

Sub Button1_Click(sender As Object, e As EventArgs)
    Public Shadows Function ShowDialog() as ReturnObject
    MyBase.showDialog
    return Form2
End FUnction
End Sub

pradeep_itguy · April 20th, 2005, 05:40 AM

You can display a new form as follows

        Dim frmObj2 As Form2
        frmObj2 = New Form2
        frmObj2.Show()

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but how much love we put in the doing.

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Dwizz · April 20th, 2005, 06:27 AM

Thank you for getting back to me Pradeep, but I couldn't get it to work. I already have a FORM2 thats got dropdown lists and radio buttons.
I tried putting your code inside the Sub, but it just chucked out a compilation error.
Any more solutions, I'm open to any suggestions.
If someone could even give me sample code that would also be appreciated.

D

katsarosj · April 20th, 2005, 08:58 AM

Your biggest problem is that if you set Form1 as the startup object, once you close it, your application ends. You also have a function within a sub, which is likely what is throwing your error.

To combat, the startup problem, you need to start your first form from a Sub Main() module. Here is a complete code example for this solution on this site:

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Prog..._21185658.html

J

Dwizz · April 21st, 2005, 03:19 AM

Thank you J, thats exactly what I was after.

And Thank You Pradeep for your time.

D