How Do I make a link?

Question

I am trying to make a button on form1 to link to form2, and I do not know how to do that, please reply if you know.

Answer 1

As you've asked on a VB forum, I need to make some assumptions.

1.  I assume you're not using ASP.NET
2.  I assume you ARE using VB.NET.

A form is just a class - the forms designer gives you a graphical view, but everything you do there goes into the InitializeComponent method, where all those GUI controls are created and their properties set.  As such, you create a form like you create any other class instance.  Then, once you have it, you can call a method on the instance called ShowDialog method will show the new form, and the old form will not respond until the new one closes.  This is called a modal dialog.  There's also a show method, this will show the form, but leave your other form responsive as well.  To use this, make your instance of Form2 a member variable, so you can access it from the entire class.

ShowDialog returns a variable of type DialogResult.  You use this return value to find out what button the user pressed to close the form ( for example, OK or Cancel ).  You can set which button does what by setting the dialog result property on buttons, and the acceptbutton and cancelbutton properties on the form ( the latter sets the property if a user closes the form without pressing one of your buttons ).

Answer 2

I am trying to do exactly the same thing. Are you and I the only ones who have had that "original" thought? Click a button and go to the next form? If I wanted to link to hypertext I would have put it in the search area. I didn't want anything in C# I wanted it in Visual Basic (2005). I'd rather not have any answer than to have 100 "answers" that didn't answer a straightforward question. It would seem to have been a "boolean" response. I understood your question exactly. Dan the frustrated.

Answer 3

Hi Dan,

A Button1 (on Form1) could have the following code in its Click eventsub, to create a new Form2 and show it to the user:

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    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

        Dim zNewForm As New Form2
        zNewForm.Show()
    End Sub

Answer 4

Really, really, really, I do appreciate your response.

I hope I made it clear that I was frustrated. I apologize.

Your response is helpful as it at least points me in a direction.

Thank you

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Answer 5

nogChoco wrote:

Hi Dan, A Button1 (on Form1) could have the following code in its Click eventsub, to create a new Form2 and show it to the user:     Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click         Dim zNewForm As New Form2         zNewForm.Show()     End Sub

 

Hi,

 

That would create a NEW copy of Form2 as a Form is a CLASS.

 

Why not just use

 

 Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

 

Form2.Show()

 

End Sub

 

 

You can in the latest "Orcas" edition, i am not sure about other versions, but either way if you leave NEW out then you are referring to the 1st instance of FORM2.

 

 

 

Regards,

 

 

S_DS