Form Instance

Form Instance

• mehdi mousavi

  What do you mean by 'available' How are you creating and showing these forms Why do you need two instances of the same form

  
  
  

• LostInSwindon

  hi cgraus,

  I was just having an example to put it on the form_load event.

  He can try it using the button_click event.

  
  
  

• urkumar2000

  Hi,

  To declare a new instance of a form:
  ex:
          Form1  myform1 = new Form1();

  If you want to access your form to other form:

  ex:

  Put this code in your form1 load event:

           Form2 myform2 = new Form2();
           myform2.Show(this);
           Form3 myform3 = new Form3();
           myform3.Show(this);

   

  HTH,

  Michael Castillones

  
  
  

• Tadeusz

  Sure - he can do it where-ever he wants, so long as the form variables are member variables and not local to the event.

  
  
  

• Walter Leinert

  Well - if you create the form in your load event, instead of as a member variable, how will you access it later I assume the child can use it's Parent property to access Form1, but in the other direction, I doubt it would work. This would also create tightly coupled code, you'd need to cast the Parent to a Form1 to get any non base class methods. Using delegates for interation between classes is more loosely coupled, and therefore better.

  
  
  
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