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Thread: How can I close One form and open another

Bill
Posts: 71

How can I close One form and open another Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 26 Feb 08 9:21 AM

I have a series of screens that have a Next button on them. There is a global recordset that will get passed from screen to screen. What I would like to do is have the current screen close and another screen open when a user presses the next button. Users will also have a back button that they can select if they need to go back and enter more data before continuing on. I have tried several scripts on the OnClick event for the Next button but I am unable to get the current screen to close and the next screen to open. The next screen that is called opens but the former screen is still visible also. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

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Ryan Farley
Posts: 2265

Re: How can I close One form and open another Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 27 Feb 08 10:42 AM

Hi Bill,

The problem is that when you open a form modally, it is a blocking call. That is, the next line of code does not execute until the blocking call returns (meaning the form is closed). So, in your scenario, you're launching the next form from the "Next"button of the current form. The line of code to close the current form will not execute until the next form closes.

What you need to do is have a script that controls the flow from one screen to the next. The script would be something like this:

1) Open form1
----- Form1 opens
----- Form1 closes and sets a global to indicate if Next/Cancel/etc was the closing action
----- Optionally Form1 could set the ModalResult which could be read from the script
2) Read global or ModalResult set from Form1
3) Launch Form2
....

See what I mean?

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Steve Smith
Posts: 3

Re: How can I close One form and open another Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 28 Feb 08 4:30 AM

Hi Bill

Another option on this is to have just one form and a tab control to give the wizard effect?

It depends on the result you are looking for

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