Help please

[DeBauer]

I was wondering. I'm going to have lots of options in a program i'm making and I don't want it in a menu. I want it on the form. But theres going to be different categoreys, so the options on the form will change when you click them. And the only way I know how to do this is like Label1.visible = true or false, and arange them how you want on the form. But it will get really clutterd for me to work with, in vb like that because they would be on top of each other. And I was wondering is there a way to have sperate forms for each categorey and have the main form get the position of the labels and everything from the other forms containing the category and have it show up on the main form? It would be much easier for me to edit like that.


Thanks

[rudvs2]

There are two options for you here

If you want to go down the label path I would make your projects main form an MDI form

Then all your catagories could be MDI Child forms and you just display the approipriate child form when a Topic is clicked

The other option is to use something like the treeview control

And display all your options as subnodes on that

hope this has helped

[beachbum]

Or u could have ur separate 'topics' in frames or picture box controls and make them visible (and ZOrder to front if necessary) as an option is selected. Frames are much less hungry for mem than forms and so may be a lower 'cost' option.

An other way may be to dynamically create the labels based on what the user selects. So say Option 1 is to pick ur favourite animal.. u may have 3 option boxes for a) Dog b) Cat c) Gerbil

If the user selects Dog u may dynamically change the Labels and option boxes of the next category eg... What sort of dog is it? a) Smelly b) Eats poo c) Needs a seeing eye man or d) did i press dog? But if was a cat u could change to "Best ways to desex cats" a) Semi Trailer b) Lightning rod etc

So, it really depends on the amount of coding u want to do and the amount of memory u want to consume
Regards
Stuart