Open same form more than once

[james0264]

I got a button that when clicked on will open a website in a small form of itself. However, after opening the form, all the button does after that is refresh the newly opened form. I wish to open the same form multiple times with just one button, each time the buttonis clicked, another instance of this form is opened. Please supply me with a solution, if possible but else please guide me through. Thanks.

 

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[BiggerBrother]

Create your form that you want a number of, which in this code is called myForm.

In the button_click eent, place:

Dim newForm as New myForm

With newForm
'Place any form specific code here, such as title for the form, or textbox and labels.
.show
end with

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[james0264]

Errrm BiggerBrother, I don't get quite what you mean since I don't have fluent English. You said ...

'Place any form specific code here, such as title for the form, or textbox and labels.
.show

... but all I want for the button to do is open the form, what do I place in the "'Place any form specific code here, such as title for the form, or textbox and labels."? Thanks again but sorry for my poor English. :S

 

[dglienna]

You don't have to do anything, but one thing that I recommend is to change the caption. That way, you will be able to refer back to that form (by looping thru the forms collection searching for .caption) You could also change the form name, but then you wouldn't be able to tell by looking at it.

 

[BiggerBrother]

You can give each instance a unique TAG property. SO the first time you load the form, give it a tag value of 1, and the next give it a value of 2. The you can refer to the form with the tag value of 1 or 2.

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[james0264]

That's not what I mean, sorry. My program will be minimsed on the system taskbar so the function keys will not be over riden. I need a code that can over ride the function keys even after minimisation. Sorry about the late reply, but thanks for any help.

 

[james0264]

Sorry, posted my reply in the wrong place, thanks for helping me anyway. My solution that I found out conincidently is:

Dim frmForm As New frmForm

Thanks again!

 

[BiggerBrother]

Which is surely what I wrote only 5 posts ago?

Glad I could help

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