I made a "simple" design change and am much happier with the look of my program, but it is causing issues.
I have one "main form" that has a button menu to open other forms. When the forms are opened, I want them to move to the working area of the main form. Forms can also be opened by buttons from other forms, so I need the move to be coded into the form itself.
If I do me.move for the on load event in the form opening, it works fine. However, thinking of the future if I ever need to change the positions I don't want to have to go into every form to change it.
I tried creating a module to do this. I was going to capture the name of the opening form and use it to do the move. However, when a form is called from the button click the On Load event of the opening form has the main form as the active form when I use Screen.Activeform.Name to capture the name.
How can I get the opening forms name?
Kevin Yip
@Reply 2 years ago
One way to do it is to have a form pass its own name to a custom function that opens another form. See the picture below as an example. When a form opens another form, run this:
MyOpenForm Me.Name, "name of form to be opened"
The custom function will then store the name of the first form in a global variable, then open the second form. At that point, you will have the names of both forms.
Kevin Yip
@Reply 2 years ago
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