something challenging ... for me

[Novice]

Hello,

I've got a little problem.

I am attending to create a new form in my
(first great project) painting programm.

Now here's the prob:

I have a button to open a new subform into my MDIContainer.
But before it opens, I would like to have the user to enter the
height, width, resolution, backcolor and so on.

I've already made a form which contains all the textboxes,
comboboxes and radiobuttons. They are grouped into several
GroupBoxes.

Now my big problem is, where to start.

How do I save the Information (which the user entered) to
that point, where the OK Button is clicked?

Is it advisable to copy the Information to the clipboard?
Because saving it to a file doesn't fit in my plans.

I'm sorry that there is no existing code by now.
But I don't want you to code it, I just need some
advise, suggestions and/or examples.

Thanks

[nemaroller]

Well, definitely not to clipboard.

Just grab the data, stick it in variables, and pass them along to the form when it is created.

You could write an overloaded New(), or preferably, a public method that takes size, resolution, and sets them.

Public Class MyMdiChild
        Public Sub New(formSize As Size, resolution As Integer, backColor As Color)
 
        End Sub
 
''''or a public method
 
 Public Sub SetFormParameters(formSize As Size, resolution As Integer, backColor As Color)

[Edneeis]

There should be no need for the clipboard here just store the information in memory and pass it to the new child form in its constructor. If you want you could also change what the form that chooses the size returns instead of the DialogResult enum.

[Novice]

Thanks for the reply,

I'd like to test your suggestions, but I'm not able to do it before Monday morning. Therefore I'm going to test it next week and post the results here.

Until then