mdi - how do I use the same child forms all the time ?

[Glassy]

Hello All,

New to the forum, been searching to find some MDI solutions, maybe have not been using the correct terms, writing a utility to use at the sound bench to update their website with new sound bytes and webpage.

What I am trying to do is to use the same child forms all the time, instead of generating new ones each time a toolbar button is pressed. Would like to only cycle through the ones that I have already created (settings that only change, if they move to another ISP or want to change webpage layout, or change the directory structure on the local or remote drives).



Thank you to anyone who can shed some light in this dark confused head

[Sheppe]

On application startup, load all of your forms, but don't display them. When a user wants to use a particular form then display it, and then when they're done with it just hide it rather than closing it.

[Glassy]

Been trying to do just that, only I keep getting new copies of the forms instead of the ones that are already there.

I am a total newbie to this Visual Basic stuff, could you help with a code sample perhaps ?

Thank you

[Sheppe]

You just need to declare object variables that represent your form. IE:

' Assuming your child form is named frmChild....
Dim ChildForm As New frmChild

Then all you do is refer to the ChildForm variable when you want to display the form, instead of the form itself.

ChildForm.Show
 
' Instead of frmChild.Show

HTH