mdi form problem.

[dungism]

Hello, I got a problem with MDI forms. When I load the child forms, they all work perfectly fine, but when i try to check for the window w/ same caption before actually load another form, sometimes, it pops up a blank window. Can anyone help me out?

[Buzby]

When you are 'in' a child form you should always use the Me keyword and not the form name to work with the form's properties;

Eg- if the form is called frmDocument;
Use Me.Caption = "...."
instead of frmDocument.Caption = "..."

If you use the name of the form VB starts a new version of that form.

Lookup ME in the help for more info.



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Mark "Buzby" Beeton
VB Developer
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[Aaron Young]

How are you checking for the Existence of another Window with the Same Caption?

If you are referencing the Caption Property of all your Forms, you could be loading some without realizing it, try this instead:

Private Function CaptionExists(ByVal sCheckCaption As String) As Boolean
    Dim oFRM As Form
    For Each oFRM In Forms
        If oFRM.Caption = sCheckCaption Then
            CaptionExists = True
            Exit For
        End If
    Next
End Function

Usage: If CaptionExists("Form2") Then ..

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Aaron Young
Analyst Programmer
[email protected]
[email protected]

[dungism]

Thank you for all your help.