[RESOLVED] Different steps problem

[PleaseProceed]

Hello I want to make different pages in my program. When you open it up it will be on page 1, and theres a next step button. When you click that you go to step 2, where there is a previous step and next step button. I am using this code right now (for example for the first forms next step to go to form 2) :

Form2.Enabled = True
Form2.Visible = True
Form1.Enabled = False
Form1.Visible = False

But on the bottom taskbar it looks like im closing it and re-opening it. I want it to be solid.

[MartinLiss]

When you hide a form there's no need to also disable it so this is probably what you want.

Form2.Visible = True
Form1.Visible = False

[PleaseProceed]

No I still get the same problem of it looking like it is getting opened and closed on the taskbar (im using xp)

[MartinLiss]

I'm not sure what you mean but try the attached project.

[PleaseProceed]

Yea thats what I want. I guess its because you only have 1 form in the right side bar area.. I have 4 forms there. How would it like yours?

[some1uk03]

Rather than using separate forms, Use 1 form which contains Picture boxes as each step and add your controls for each step in each Picture box

[MartinLiss]

Yea thats what I want. I guess its because you only have 1 form in the right side bar area.. I have 4 forms there. How would it like yours?

Did you look at my code? if you did you'd see that I use frames for the steps or you could use pictureboxes like some1uk03 suggested.

[ara123]

uhhh.... So on my one form I made a picture box which is blank and covers the whole form, so now what code do I need to individually access each one like forms?

[MartinLiss]

See my code and just change the frames to pictureboxes.

[ara123]

Im not good at editing the code and for the picture boxes I cant place buttons on them because you cant see them..

[MartinLiss]

Okay then just use frames like I did. If you don't want to see the border on the frames just set their BorderStyle to None.

[MartinLiss]

Im not good at editing the code and for the picture boxes I cant place buttons on them because you cant see them..

BTW I just checked and there's no reason you can't put a button in a picturebox, but you can't drag them there, you have to either draw then on the picturebox or cut/paste them there. The same goes for any other control you want to put in the picturebox.

[vb5prgrmr]

Another way to possibly solve the taskbar problem is to set subquential forms showintaskbar property to false. Thus you would keep a form visable, say form1 but enabled = false and then when you show form2 (with its showintaskbar=false) you overlay it on top of form 1 so it cover/hides it. However, if you are building a wizard like app, meaning do step1, then step2, then step3, perhaps you should use a MDI application interface.

Good Luck

[PleaseProceed]

So how would I do the subquential thing? or could someone write a code like the first code MartinLiss wrote in that program except for picturebox's?

[vb5prgrmr]

For a MDI example...

Start new standard project, add mdi form, add code to mdi form...

Option Explicit

Private Sub MDIForm_Load()
Form1.Show
End Sub

select form1, go to properties box and set mdi child to true, window state to maximized, add command button. Then go to ide menu project>properties and set startup object MDIForm1. Now go to ide menu project>add form (Form2). Then double click on command button and add code...

Option Explicit

Private Sub Command1_Click()
Form2.Show
Me.Enabled = False
Form2.ZOrder 0
End Sub

and so on, and so on for each form/step plus other code you need. Run>test

Now for a test non mdi (same test project)...

Go to ide menu project>properties and set startup object to Form1. Select Form1 and in properties box change its mdi child setting back to false. Set its windowstate back to normal and size it like you want. Remove MDIForm1 from test project by right clicking on MDIForm1 in the Project properties and select remove MDIForm1. Add code to form1

Option Explicit

Private Sub Command1_Click()
Load Form2
Form2.Left = Me.Left
Form2.Top = Me.Top
Form2.Height = Me.Height
Form2.Width = Me.Width
Form2.Show
Me.Enabled = False
Form2.ZOrder 0
End Sub

Repeate as necessary for each form (remember to change form2 to form3 and so on).

Run/Test

Good Luck

[MartinLiss]

So how would I do the subquential thing? or could someone write a code like the first code MartinLiss wrote in that program except for picturebox's?

Here you go.

[PleaseProceed]

Thanks so much everyone.