Opening Forms

Pete Newman

VS 2005 (VB.Net) Is it possible to open a form by a string name without having to declare the form first , ie normally you would Dim SomeForm as New FormName SomeForm.Show What i wasnt yo do is create a dynamic form, and when the user clicks a button it open a corraspoinding form. As each user will have different 'buttons' on there forms i want to have a routine that i can parm a formname in as a string and it open the form. ie Dim FormName as String = 'SomeFormName' FormName.Show Any idea's :^)

I really do need help..... all this computer stuff is way over my head !!

The ANZAC

No i don't think so. Why do you need to do it this way?

Posted by The ANZAC

Pete Newman

I do know thre is a way of doing this, as i have seen the code, just carnt remember it. The reason i want to do it this way is that there are a number of users that will be using this application, each one on them will have a 'main selection screen' which will have upwards of 20+ options. each option will open a new form. NOT all the operators will have the same options so rather than have a while load of code declaring every form, i just want a small simple routine.

I really do need help..... all this computer stuff is way over my head !!

Navneet Hegde

:rose:yes its Absolutely possible to do so and can be done very neatly in VB2.0,Just give me a day I will post the Code snippet . but before that I want to know you require that and how you got this nagging idea Navneet.Hegde navneethegde@yahoo.co.in Live Life Kingsize

Pete Newman

we have an inhouse menu type application, when a operator logs onto the stytem , ihave a function that dynamicly creates the menu oprtions for this operator from there profile. ie in design tine the form is blank, but buttons ( options buttons ) , and click even handlers are generated for all the area's they are allowed to access. this info is held in a SQL2005 table ie .. Operator 1 can access area's 1,2,3, and 4 so would have 4 buttons on screen , Operator 2 can only access area's 1 and 4 hance only has two buttons. As the buttons are dynamicly generated the indexes ( start at 0 ) are never the same. in the example above operator button index 1 would be for Area 2 where as for operator 2 it would be for area 4 i have a work round by Dimming every form and then using the button text in a case statement to determine which button was clicked, but that means every time i add a new form i have to remember to add it in the select case statement ... If i can use the form name form the SQL table in a simple routine it will save endless pages of coding and i wont have tp remember to keep comming back to the master form and adding the reference in its the simple idea's that prove to be the hardest !!

I really do need help..... all this computer stuff is way over my head !!

Navneet Hegde

:-O:-O:-Ook dear I will just post it as i get back to my PC . I just wanted to know the reason for reaching this end of programming . my reason for digging this code is that we wanted to build application dynamically and form name were all in database Navneet.Hegde navneethegde@yahoo.co.in navneethegde@gmail.com navneet.hegde@procit.com Live Life Kingsize