how many ways to bring up a form/window?

6 Jun 2006 5:26 PM

James

Hi all,

I am new to VB.NET. My program has two forms, if user clicks an "OK"
button
in Form1, the From2 will be brought to front.
I found there are three methods of the Form class related to it:

Form2.Activate()
Form2.BringToFront()
Form2.Show()

Which one/ones should I use?

Thanks,

James

6 Jun 2006 5:32 PM

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]

"James" <jzhen***@gmail.com> schrieb:
> I am new to VB.NET. My program has two forms, if user clicks an "OK"
> button
> in Form1, the From2 will be brought to front.
> I found there are three methods of the Form class related to it:
>
> Form2.Activate()
> Form2.BringToFront()
> Form2.Show()
>
> Which one/ones should I use?

'BringToFront' is inherited from 'Control', 'Show' is used to /show/ a maybe
hidden form. Thus I vote for using 'Activate' if the form is already open.

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6 Jun 2006 7:03 PM

James

Herfried K. Wagner [MVP] wrote:
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> "James" <jzhen***@gmail.com> schrieb:
> > I am new to VB.NET. My program has two forms, if user clicks an "OK"
> > button
> > in Form1, the From2 will be brought to front.
> > I found there are three methods of the Form class related to it:
> >
> > Form2.Activate()
> > Form2.BringToFront()
> > Form2.Show()
> >
> > Which one/ones should I use?
>
> 'BringToFront' is inherited from 'Control', 'Show' is used to /show/ a maybe
> hidden form. Thus I vote for using 'Activate' if the form is already open.
>

However, when Form2 is minimized, "Activate" will not bring
Form2 up and to front. Any hints?

Thanks.