I am currently trying to build a system but its llooking a mess so im trying to make it look presentable.
Its based on a booking system of cars with customers. Before i had just one form where i can input both information and then book it for a given period. But instead now what i want to do is to insert the information of customers on one form, and insert the information of the car on the second form, however i want to use a third form as a confirmation screen which will show who has taken which car using the information on the previous two screens.
Any ideas anyone
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wjcyg
You can expose the desired information as properites of your forms:
Customer form...
Public Readonly Property CustomerName as string
Get
CustomerName = TextBox1.Text
End Get
End Property
and so forth, then on your confirmation form you can reference the property, CustomerForm.CustomerName. A better method, in my option, is to make your confirmation form have the properties, then set them. For example:
Private Sub btnBookIt_Click....
Dim poForm as New frmConfirm
poForm.Customer = name from this form
poForm.CarMake = car from other form
If poForm.ShowDialog() = DialogResult.OK Then
....
End If
By adding properties to the confirm form you can enacapsulate the how the confirmation form is layed out and displayed to the user in one place.
Ranjit Charles
Ali Khan
There are some subtleties that are elusive. I use group boxes profusely. They can contain groups of controls and the entire groupbox can be made visible or invisible with a single line of code. (gb.visible = false). This gives you a whole lot more options than form after form after.....