used to be cmdShowForm and cmdHideForm what is it now?

used to be cmdShowForm and cmdHideForm what is it now?

• raindrops123

  I think your problem is that as forms are treated as classes you need to instantiate an instance to use it.
  
  So if you have a form with a name FrmMain as an example.
  
  To display it you would do something like
  
  Dim Main as new Frmmain
  Main.Show  or Main.ShowDialog
  
  For a command button to hide the current form you can use something like
  
  me.hide    or me.close
  
  
  If you want to close one form from another you will need a reference on the first form to the second form.
  
  

  Public Class Form1

  Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
  
  Dim o As New Form2
  o.ShowDialog()

  If o.DialogResult = True Then
     o.Close()
  End If
  
  End Sub
  End Class

  and on Form2
  
  

  Public Class Form2

  Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
  Me.Hide()
  End Sub
  
  End Class

  This would allow you to display an instance of form2 as a modal dialog and when you click the button on form2 it would hide and the button would be set to return a dialogreturn of OK.    When the return value of OK is received back to form1 it would close form2
  
  Form1 has a reference to the instance of form2
  
  
  

• vivi_0606

  Hi,

  I think its still the same.The only main difference is showing modal dialogs.

  Me.Show() - vbModeless in VB6
  Me.ShowDialog() - vbModal
  Me.Hide() - Hides the form

   

  cheers,

  Paul June A. Domag

  
  
  
• used to be cmdShowForm and cmdHideForm what is it now?