How to hide the main form in other way ?

[xRedSn0w]

Hello VBForum !
I just registered and it looks like a very awesome forum

I have a very small question, just started with all the Visual Basic business..
To make your life easier, I'll demonstrate it hehe

I made a button in the main form, and 2 textboxes, like that (a simple login screen, which doesn't work yet):



The "Login" button perform this:

Form2.Show()
Me.Hide()

This is how "Form2" looks like:



The "x" button perform this:

Form1.Show()
Me.Close()

And then it shows up "Form1" again.. now, for my question:
Is there a way to hide the "Form1" or even close it, in order to show it up like the same way "Form2" do ?

I mean, after you open up "Form2" you only HIDE "Form1", and when you close "Form2" and open it once again, the opening way is different, because it's not only hidden.
I did this before, but I'm not sure how.. and no, I can't do "Form1.close", because it terminates all the debugging.


Lol hope you understand
Thanks !

[dunfiddlin]

I did this before, but I'm not sure how.. and no, I can't do "Form1.close", because it terminates all the debugging.

Yes you can.

Project Menu > Project Properties > Application > ShutDownMode > When last form closes.

[xRedSn0w]

Yes you can.

Project Menu > Project Properties > Application > ShutDownMode > When last form closes.

Probably my explanation wasn't well
When I said "close the first Form", I meant to close it AFTER I OPEN UP the second form, understand? (same as Me.Close instead of Me.hide)..

[dunfiddlin]

Er ... yes .... after is the only situation to which this setting applies.

[xRedSn0w]

Er ... yes .... after is the only situation to which this setting applies.

Ohh I'm so sorry, I wasn't home so I couldn't try it, so I was thinking that you meant something else..
Thank you so so much, it works !!!

Edit: but there is another problem.. after I did what you told me, I changed the Me.Hide to Me.Close and it worked fine,
but when I tried to prevent a closing of the application (by the X in the top right, or right click on the window's toolbar), in this way:

Protected Overrides ReadOnly Property CreateParams() As CreateParams
Get
Dim cp As CreateParams = MyBase.CreateParams
Const CS_NOCLOSE As Integer = &H200
cp.ClassStyle = cp.ClassStyle Or CS_NOCLOSE
Return cp
End Get
'End Property

The Me.Close get not effect and the other form (Form2) just show up, and Form1 isn't close :S
how can I combine it? do Me.Close (to Form1), and at the same time prevent it's closing ?

[dunfiddlin]

In the following, the form cannot be closed by any method other than clicking a particular button. You can replace the button with whatever trigger you want ...

Public Class Form1
    Dim CanClose As Boolean = False
 
    Private Sub Form1_FormClosing(sender As System.Object, e As System.Windows.Forms.FormClosingEventArgs) Handles MyBase.FormClosing
        If Not CanClose Then e.Cancel = True
    End Sub
 
    Private Sub Button1_Click(sender As System.Object, e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        CanClose = True
        Me.Close()
    End Sub
End Class