Showing A New Form

It seems nobody has much for beginners these days, and this is one thing in particular most sites neglect. When I(Kyle) was a newbie, it took me forever to find out how to do this. There is no point in waiting so here is the answer to the question "How do I pull up a new form?" This is easy.

First name your original form FormMain. Now create a new form. You can create a new form by clicking Project on the menu. Inside the Project menu push Add Form. This will pull up a new form. Name the new form FormNew.

Now go to form FormMain and make a button. Name the button NewForm and make its caption say New Form. Double click on the NewForm button to pull up its code. Add the following to its sub.

FormMain.hide
FormNew.show

What does this stuff mean? It isn't too hard. FormMain.hide tells your program to hide FormMain. FormNew.show tells your program to show FormNew. That's pretty easy and should require little thought, but just in case you are having problems or are too lazy to do this yourself, you can download an example program here.

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