A second Form

[Flac]

ok, another stupid question...

Say i have 2 forms.

On form1 i have a textbox and a button. How do i make it to where if you insert a the correct string in the textbox, hit the button, it opens up form2 and closes form1?

as it stands i've been simply having form1 do a .show of form2, and having form1's .visible property turn to False when the string is inputed correctly. is there a better way of doing it?


---Flac

[Pirate]

If Form1 is your application startup form , then you can't use Close() method because this will closes the application , you should hide it instead or make visible property =false . As for Form2 , you can close it as long as it's not the application startup form .

As I understood , you did it right .

[Flac]

Ok. Now if i keep doing it the way i currently am. How would i close form1 when i want the program to end?

When i do the "end" process on form2 will it end form1 as well? or do i need to make code to make form1.visible = true again and then close that?

If the "end" process doesnt end form1 from form2, is there a way i can make a process from form2 to end form1?

if this seems a little like blindsided questioning, please excuse me, currently not on a computer with VB.net so i cant experiment and test it myself.

thanks for the info thus-far

---Flac

[Pirate]

Originally posted by Flac
Ok. Now if i keep doing it the way i currently am. How would i close form1 when i want the program to end?

When i do the "end" process on form2 will it end form1 as well? or do i need to make code to make form1.visible = true again and then close that?

If the "end" process doesnt end form1 from form2, is there a way i can make a process from form2 to end form1?

if this seems a little like blindsided questioning, please excuse me, currently not on a computer with VB.net so i cant experiment and test it myself.

thanks for the info thus-far

---Flac

You can always close the application from anywhere and any form by calling :
Application.Exit()
You don't have to show the form first and then close , GC(Garbage Collector) takes care of this and clean the memory and reclaime it .

or
Me.Close()
When you are in the main form , But , I prefer the first method as it forces the application to close down in cases it refuse ....