Problems with forms.......help....help.......

[liz jumari]

I have a form called Form1. This form can be called by either FormA or FormB. Are there any ways whereby Form1 will know which one of these forms has called it?? If possible i do not want to use any MDI forms.

[LAURENS]

As far as I know there isn't.
You can create one yourself eg. by introducing a 'parent' in the form that you fill with a value by which it will 'know' by whom it is called.

[liz jumari]

how can that be done???

[LAURENS]

Put a commandbutton on Form1
Paste this code into the general section of Form1.

Option Explicit
Public intCalledBy As Integer 'Consider this your new property. 
'You could also make it private and use get and let property statements. 
' But that's exactly what VB will do under water when you use a public.

Private Sub Command1_Click()

   Select Case intCalledBy
   
      Case 1
         MsgBox "Called by FormA"
      Case 2
         MsgBox "Called by FormB"
      
   End Select

End Sub

Put a commandbutton on FormA.
Paste this code into the general section of FormA.

Private Sub Command1_Click()
Dim frmForm As Form

   Set frmForm = New Form1
   frmForm.intCalledBy = 1
   frmForm.Show vbModal
   Set frmForm = Nothing
   
End Sub

Make sure you have FormA as startup Form.
Is this what you mean?

[krigans]

hi,
try this way in formA where u are calling form1
load form1
form1.tag = me.name / form1.tag = formA.name
and access form1 properties

[liz jumari]

thanks a million laurens and krigans for the help..... i'll experiment with both codes.