"Form Main"... eh?

[Ian McKenzie]

OK - gotta question - can someone help?

I have a program with two forms. One form is the startup form, and the other is accessed when I press a button. I get a build error, and it seems that I'm missing the words "form main" somewhere in the first form. Anyone know where I need to enter that?

Ian

[alextyx]

Dear Ian, probably because of my poor english, I can't understand which is the problem. Probably if it were happened to me, I could recognize it immediately, but I never saw that behaviour...so I must investigate to solve it.
It's possible someone could recognize it and help you, but if it's not so, than post your code and, if possible, the exact text of the error message. The code you have to post, is not the entire application, obviously, but where Forms are declared and instanciated. Good job

[taxes]

Originally posted by Ian McKenzie
OK - gotta question - can someone help?

I have a program with two forms. One form is the startup form, and the other is accessed when I press a button. I get a build error, and it seems that I'm missing the words "form main" somewhere in the first form. Anyone know where I need to enter that?

Ian

I'll take a guess.

Assume your forms are named fclsStartup and fclsMain

in the button click event put

Dim frmMain as new fclsMain
frmMain.ShowDialog()


Try it. Depending on what you are doing, this may need amending, but it should work OK.

[Ian McKenzie]

Thanks for the suggestion - it worked in a strange way... it caused me to look at what I had called the new form - I had changed the name of the form without altering the code. So my coding was fine except it referred to a nonexistent form.

Doh!

I'm really impressed and grateful that guys like you are out there.

Thanks again.

Ian

[ayan]

call it as the class... let us say you renam form2 to xxxform. the class still says

public class form1
.
.
.
end class

you should still say

dim f as new form2() 'class name
f.show