can i use the same frame to display multiple forms?

What I would like to do is setup a menu system, so for the main form you will have a top navigation linking to different forms, but instead of loading a new form, I would like it if all info from that form would display in a frame, is this possible?

So if I have 3 button on my main page, button 1 links to form2, button 2 links to form 3, button 3 links to form 4 etc, so if I click button 1 form 2 will be displayed in the frame and so on.

Do you want to show more than one form in the frame at the same time?

Could you copy and paste the controls/code from the other forms onto 3 different pictureboxes on the main form, then when the buttons are clicked just set the visible property of the picturebox to true to show it.

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Originally Posted by MartinLiss

Do you want to show more than one form in the frame at the same time?

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no just one form at one time

Code:

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Option Explicit
Private Declare Function SetParent Lib "user32" (ByVal hWndChild As Long, ByVal hWndNewParent As Long) As Long

Private Sub Command1_Click()
UnloadOtherForms
Form2.Show
SetParent Form2.hWnd, Frame1.hWnd

End Sub


Private Sub Command2_Click()
UnloadOtherForms
Form3.Show
SetParent Form3.hWnd, Frame1.hWnd

End Sub

Public Sub UnloadOtherForms()
    Dim frm As Form
   
    For Each frm In Forms
        If frm.Name <> "Form1" Then
            Unload frm
            Set frm = Nothing
        End If
    Next
   
End Sub

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