I'm making an equation program and I want to have a main menu where the user can select an equation and then when one of the buttons is clicked, it closes the "selection" form and opens the appropriate form. For now I just have it set to show the proper form (for example, Form3.Show) but when I try to do something like Me.Close() after it, everything closes instead of keeping Form3 open.
I have a main form that has a button with which a smaller form is shown. Think of the smaller form as the Find/Replace dialog in many applications, such as Notepad. It's important that the form is (what I believe is called) modal. What I mean is that it always stays on top of the main form. I ensure that by calling the Show method with "Me" as the owner argument. Whenever the small form loses focus it will not disappear into the background but stay visible (albeit out of focus). If you don't understand open up Notepad and have a look at the behavior of the Find/Replace dialog.
Here's my problem: instead of actually closing the form when the X is pressed, I want it to simply Hide itself, so its position and the state of any controls (checkboxes etc) is preserved automatically.To achieve this I simply cancel the FormClosing event and Hide it:
vb.net Private Sub Form2_FormClosing(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.FormClosingEventArgs) Handles MyBase.FormClosing
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To show the form, I use the following (note the (Me) to make the main form the owner of the form; this ensures that it remains visible even when it is out of focus):
vb.net Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click Form2.Show(Me) End Sub
Now. When I run my project, and open the Form2 (small form), then hide it again (by 'closing' it), I can no longer close the main form (Form1)! It seems the main form cannot close when the small form still exists (albeit invisible)...?? When I don't use the Me argument in the Show method, I don't get the behavior I want. I know I can set the TopMost property to True but that will also cause it to become visible on top of all the other forms, even windows not part of my application.
Is there any way to skip a the validating event of the active control when the close button of the form is clicked. It is very annoying when user wants to close the form, but due to the validate event of the active control, it asks for the valid input. The user is forced to give valid input to close the form. I have searched a lot for this on net but no any proper solution could be found.
I am having a hard time with this. This is my code: invoiceform.show() me.close() This is the only way I can think to do it, but it closes the application due to me.close(). How can I do this? Invoiceform is already running!
I've created a very simple form with one button on. I need it so when the form runs, it opens in the bottom right hand corner of the screen regardless of the resolution. It also needs to be always on top of all other applications.
When the buttons pressed, i need it to close all iexplore instances and reopen a fresh instance.
I've tried to search for the answer but to no avail.
in my visual basic 2008, i have create like a hospital check form like just pressing some keyword the person data automatically open to another form and the current form will close since i am new to the visual basic 2008 i would like to ask what is the coding work to save the data of a person and how to retrieve a data of that person by pressing the keyword?
here i am dealing with only two form,so if i add form1.close() in the form2 button click event then it might wok. but what if i deal with many forms and i need to show and hide them several times?
I have a simple Windows Form that hosts property controls at runtime. When the user clicks Close [X] I want to keep the window and its contents alive rather than killing it by handling the FormClosing event, canceling the event and simply hiding the form.
That's fine but at close of the application I need to actually close the window. I implemented the below but it feels kludgey. Is there a simpler, more clever way to handle this situation? (The form's controller calls KillForm explicitly after it receives a closing event from the main window.)[code]...
i have a webbrowser1 which cannot navigate from the link it is set up to, and cannot open new links in other windows, i need something like if get the URL Google.com when it clicked a link on the current site, then Form2.Show(). Link here <-- when clicked open form2 if its yahoo opens form3.
Is there a way to have a form within a program that doesn't dispose when you close it? I have a form in my project and a menu item to show it. When I declare the form globally and show in menuItem.click, then the click event breaks because the form no longer exists. When I declare the form within menuItem.click, then this creates a new form every time I click and that's not what I want.
I have set up a notify icon for my form. I want to make it so that when the user clicks the close button that it doesn't close the form it just takes it to shows the notify icon. They can exit the program from the notify icon. Can someone tell me how to keep it running?
My Problem is that I have a form that when a button is clicked loads a new form - code below. I want to fill a list view with data from a database in columns but that isn't the problem: Whenever I run the program and try to open the new form, the program runs up to the Rec = Connection.execute line before going back to the first form where I opened it up.
Public Class Form2 Public Const ConnectionString As String = "Data Source=PeopleBase.sdf" Dim connection As New ADODB.Connection Private Sub Form2_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load [Code] .....
I should also explain that the database is a local one and there are no errors or warnings that show up, it just runs like the while loop part isn't there.
I have already done the creation of button and the dragging of button at runtime already.But now i need to know how do i save the last dragged button on the form and also detect the name of the last clicked button.so lets say i now drag a button to coordinates 25,254. so when i exit the form and the next time i launch it, the button will still be at 25,254. and this one will go on for the number of button i created like 100. so when i launch the form the 100 button will be at the exact position where i last saved them.the second part is lets say i created button1 and button2 on the form in runtime. so when i clicked the first button, it should display button1. and if i clicked on button 2, it should say button2. same goes for like 100buttons.
I never had problems with this before but now this ain't working right. What I want to do is open a new Form and close the Current Form that is already open. This code use to work for me
When I open my application I have the first form which opens as the Register form. When I press the Activate Button I want the MAIN form to open and I am using the code below as the last two line[code]...
okay on my main form i created an instance of another form
Dim secondform As New frmSecond and i called it with this
secondform.ShowDialog() okay now when the secondform pops up there is a "OK" button and "Cancel" button. how can i tell which button was clicked? If "OK" was clicked i want to perform a task, otherwise nothing happens..
I have created a form in VB and have coded a Clear Form button into it. The issue I am having now is coding the 'Submit Form' button to have it email the completed form to 2 employees in the bank that I work at. The form will be uploaded to our server for other bank officers to complete and then submit.
I also need to know how to make the same button create a folder to save a txt file in. I havnt yet figured out how to save changes made into my program, that way next time i open it, i can continue where i left off.
I am trying to update my form once the delete button is clicked. There are several fields like Name, Date, Date of Birth and so on. Once I delete a record I want the form to automatically load with new / updated data. This form fetches data from MS Access using OLEDB I have spent a long long time trying this but did not get any solution.
programmer and anything related with IT. i'm trying to create a program for my internet cafe wherein i would need 2 forms, 1 which will contain the transactions and 1 to log in/out customers. I was able to make this using excel but am currenty having a hard time now creating the program with VB2010, because syntax/formulas seemed different from that of excel2010... i have so many questions that i would like to ask, but i'l start with loading a form(for logging in/out) by clicking the Log-in button.
what i used before when i created a userform in excel is this: Private sub LogBut_Click() logForm.show
Are there code can open and close forms in particular Time (reference is computer clock)..? Example: in 08:00:00 open form1 and in 08:45:00 close it And can I let the user enter the time to open and close the forms in the Basic Form?
i am developing client-server app. i want to hide the opened form and open the another form when i recive the commnd from server. the client side has two form and one class.code(this code execute when i recive the msg):
Sub messagerecieved(ByVal message As String) Dim msg() As String = message.Split("|") ' if a message is recieved, split it to process it Select Case msg(0) 'process it by the first element in the split array