Calling a Form from a Form and Switching Back 3

[Menglish]

I have been searching through the FAQ's but have been unable to resolve my problem.

I am in Form1, and when the command button is clicked, I issue to command:
thisform.visible=.F.
do form2
read events
and this works fine.


Now is my problem. When I close form2 with "thisform.release()", how do I restore Form1? Issuing the command thisform.Form1.visible=.T. generates an error.

Any suggestions?

Thanks for any assistance.

Millard English

 

[Mike Gagnon]

Menglish

You have to use a NAME clause,in order to be able to refer to your forms later.
PUBLIC oForm1,oForm2
DO form form1.scx NAME oForm1
&&Do form form2.scx NAME oForm2

Now when you need to bring back form1 you would use:
oForm1.visible = .t.


Mike Gagnon

If you want to get the best response to a question, please check out FAQ184-2483 first.

 

[wgcs]

Also, You only ever need one READ EVENTS command in your program... you don't have to call it after launching each form, like in the old FoxproDos READ command.

 

[tvign]

Since you are making Form1 invisible, you really intend to prevent the user from using it when in Form2. So, the solution is to make Form2 MODAL (Window Type = 1)

Then, from Form1's control you issue the following:


Thisform.hide
do form Form2
Thisform.show()

You can also return a value from Form2 (as in a function) if you wish. To do this...

local myvar
myvar = ""
Thisform.hide
do form Form2 to myvar
Thisform.show()

In Form2's Unload method, RETURN any result of the type of myvar (in this example, char).

Tony Vignone