[RESOLVED] Dll With a form

[ggettings]

I have a dll file that has a form. When I call the dll file it pulls up the form and runs fine but once the form load() is complete the original program that called the dll continues running. I want the program to not continue running until im finished with the .dll file is there any way to keep the program from running until the dll is exited via an exit button? Using a shell obviously has similar problems thats why i tried making a dll to act like an .exe

[RhinoBull]

Why do you even need a dll ? You can have another form in your project and simply show it modally so everything else is on-hold until you done with it.

[ggettings]

Well it's a complex form that will be called from other programs so rather that put this form is each exe that needs it I can have this dll get called from each exe and when I have to make a change to the dll I wont need to re-compile each exe and make each user re-boot their system to have the latest version

[RhinoBull]

Then you can start some loop in your main program right after you call that dll. In the dll you might need to set some flag so you can check for that flag in your main program and continue looping until flag is reset.

I hope I made myself clear enough.

[oh1mie]

Create public class variable to dll as flag. Keep it up so long as needed and write canceling to Form_QueryUnload until flag is down.

[MarkT]

This seems to work.
In the dll

Private Sub Class_Initialize()
    Form1.Show vbModal
End Sub

And in the project using it

Private Sub Command1_Click()
Dim objForm As Project2.Class1
    Set objForm = New Class1
    
    MsgBox "closed"
    Set objForm = Nothing
End Sub

[ggettings]

vbModal seems to work but there is a point in wich the dll needs to stop and i know what that point is but i dont know how to stop it I tried an unload me but no luck, ill keep playing around but I've never used vbModal before so I'm not really sure what its doing.

[ggettings]

bla nevermind unload me works just fine i still had some code in my form_unload() that was messing it up.

Thanks for the help