Calling forms in sequence

[Frode]

Hi,
I'm writing an application which firstly displays a loginform.
When the user has finished validating himself, I want to open the programform, and close the login form.

The project is set up to start the loginform upon execution.

The problem is that the program quits when I do a me.close on the loginform. I do a .show on the programform before I call the loginforms me.close so that I have a form active, but still the entire program quits.

I'm (trying) to use a MVC (Model-View-Controller) design on my program.

What am I missing? How could I fix this?

[gigemboy]

I would assume starting up with sub main. Set the startup object to sub main, then add a module with the following code:

Module Module1
    Public LoginValidated As Boolean = False
    Public Sub main()
        Application.Run(New Form1)
        If LoginValidated = True Then
            Application.Run(New Form2)
        Else
            'run a new form1, display a messagebox, whatever you want 
        End If
    End Sub
End Module

This creates a loginvalidated variable, that you can set to true in form1 if login is successful (LoginValidated = True)... Then when you close the form, if the validated variable is true, it would then run form2 when form1 is closed. If false, you can add a case in the else statement in the module to run a new form1, display a message, or whatever you want. Not sure if this is the best way, but its one way...

[cpatzer]

You could also have the main form's visiblity property set to false. In it's load event show the login form. If the login is good, close the login form from the main form and and set the mainform's visibilty property to true.