Deleting all forms in collection

14 Jan 2006 8:48 PM

Yuk Tang

I have created my own custom forms called baseform, inheriting normal
form properties and such. Baseform is, as can be expected, the basis
for the other forms in my project. I want to close all forms
whenever the x is clicked on any of those forms, so I go to the
closing event and cycle through the forms collection, closing each of
them down like so.

either

Forms(n).Close

or

Systems.Windows.Forms(n).Close

or something similar. But to my surprise, I don't get the count
property as an option to get n number of forms, and manually putting
in a number doesn't offer close as a valid method either. My guess
was that, since baseform inherits from form, so baseform would be
part of the forms collection as a result.

I can work around it by putting in a method that checks and closes
each form by name, but I'd have thought looping through the
collection via index numbers would be a simpler solution.

I have the feeling that I'm missing something obvious here. Can
someone help? Thanks.

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Cheers, ymt.

15 Jan 2006 12:22 AM

Jumeli

Hello,
Cant we use
dim f1 as form
For each f1 in system.windows.forms
if f1.isopen is true f1.close
next

???
Try it out.
Sorry if i dint catch your point.

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"Yuk Tang" <jim.lak***@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I have created my own custom forms called baseform, inheriting normal
> form properties and such. Baseform is, as can be expected, the basis
> for the other forms in my project. I want to close all forms
> whenever the x is clicked on any of those forms, so I go to the
> closing event and cycle through the forms collection, closing each of
> them down like so.
>
> either
>
> Forms(n).Close
>
> or
>
> Systems.Windows.Forms(n).Close
>
> or something similar. But to my surprise, I don't get the count
> property as an option to get n number of forms, and manually putting
> in a number doesn't offer close as a valid method either. My guess
> was that, since baseform inherits from form, so baseform would be
> part of the forms collection as a result.
>
> I can work around it by putting in a method that checks and closes
> each form by name, but I'd have thought looping through the
> collection via index numbers would be a simpler solution.
>
> I have the feeling that I'm missing something obvious here. Can
> someone help? Thanks.
>
>
> --
> Cheers, ymt.

19 Jan 2006 7:55 PM

Yuk Tang

Thanks.

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Cheers, ymt.