calling forms

[purusingh]

How to call a form from another form?

[Jop]

Is this a C++ question?

[purusingh]

yes in vc++

[Jop]

I'm not sure what you mean with Forms.. I think you mean dialogs? and what do you mean with calling them

[HarryW]

'Forms' is just what they are called in VB, purusingh. In C or C++ or pretty much any other language they're just windows. A form in VB is fundamentally just a specialised type of window with some stuff tacked on.

What are you trying to do with one window from the other?

[purusingh]

Actually I want to make a database application.In which there could some forms and according to demand I want to open different form.

[Jop]

Please stop talking about forms, they don't exist in C++

Anyway, to create a new dialog from whatever window use DialogBox api, but you need to be a bit more specific for me to get you some code..

[amac]

I don't remember windows existing in C++ either.

[purusingh]

I know to open dialog. We do

Dialog a;
a.DoModal();



In mfc there are view base on form databaseform ......

Suppose there are 2 views based on formview.

Now I want to call the second view form the first one so that both of them are visible.

[HarryW]

Originally posted by amac
I don't remember windows existing in C++ either.

Well, no but the API you use to make GUIs in Windows is window-based.

[CornedBee]

As I suspected, he's talking about MFC. There are forms in MFC (CFormView).

You can't "call" the view, what you usually do is create a splitter window with the two views contained. Search the forum on CSplitterWnd, there was a thread a short while ago.