how do you change form1 to form2?

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I have a simple button in form1, I'm having a hard time making it that when you click on the button in form1 form1 will change into form2. The only thing I can do is make form2 open on a new form. I forgot how to do this and I need someone to help me jog my memory!

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Posted 10-Jul-12 4:24am

MR. AngelMendez

Updated 10-Jul-12 4:26am

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[no name] 10-Jul-12 10:27am

You mean: frm2.Show(); frm1.Hide(); ?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 10-Jul-12 15:45pm

What, you forgot how to make the impossible? Wow, please remember it as soon as you can, I want to know your trick. :-)
--SA

MR. AngelMendez 11-Jul-12 9:00am

yeah its an old hacker trick that was passed down to me but cant remember lol :)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 11-Jul-12 14:18pm

:-)

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-10T04:41:00

You can't actually change Form1 into Form2 - they are normally separate classes and can't be "mutated" from one into the other.
There are a couple of ways you can get that visual effect though.

The first is to make them the same size and shape, and set the new form StartPosition to Manual. You then set the Loctation property so that it matches the Form1. You can then Show the Form2, and Hide Form1 - do not try to use ShowDialog on Form2 unless you Hide Form1 first! If you do this, you must provide a way to return to Form1, or a different way to terminate the application - closing Form2 will not do that. One way is to handle the Form2 FormClosing event, and either Close Form1, or re-show it.

The other way is to put the whole of your form into a UserControl and display that on the Form surface. When you need to swap to "Form2" you just make the "Form1" UserControl Visible property false, and the "Form2" one true. Like magic, the form appears to change!

Personally, I tend to use the latter method.