Several Forms

[WilliGrundmann]

Hi,

Is there a way to have several forms, which can be controlled by a single QB64 program?

It would be good, if there was a way to switch between the forms - perhaps via a button or menu item.

Best Regards

Willi

[TempodiBasic]

Hi Willi
welcome to the forum of QB64 and Inform.

you can find interesting this example: it is a workaround about to have many different forms all together
https://www.qb64.org/forum/index.php?topic=294.msg1800#msg1800

while here you can get more INFORMations about Inform
https://www.qb64.org/forum/index.php?topic=958.msg101541#msg101541

If you want more windows managed by one program for now it seems behind the QB64 structure.

[WilliGrundmann]

Hi TempbodiBasic,

Thank you for the help and the example.

I understand now that hiding and disabling controls allows to use the same space for different features.

Best Regards

Willi

[niktorthenat]

Sorry for my english, but I speak italian.
I have made some video tutorial in Youtube and in this video, I explain how open several Form, also with exchange of variables

without variables:

with exchange variables:

NiktorTheNat

[TempodiBasic]

Hi NiktorTheNat

Welcome to QB64 community

I hope that the video is self-explaining for the other users of this community.

Interesting use of CHAIN and COMMON SHARED as in the old days of QB45.

It is a way more confortable in the place of use a dinamic form like I tried some time ago.
It has the same issue to let to use more windows but one at time, so also this your solution IMHO  is a semi-solution to the request of multiforms' application.

This is the cause that brings me to experiment to construct a window child system . See here https://www.qb64.org/forum/index.php?topic=2124.0

Thanks to share you idea and project

[FellippeHeitor]

It was crazy watching your videos, NiktorTheNat! Thank you so much for your interest in both QB64 and in InForm. Thanks for helping spread the word through YouTube!

Welcome to the forum!

Fellippe.

[FellippeHeitor]

BTW: When you make the PasswordField property = False, you can trigger a redraw by making Control(txtFacebook).Redraw = True, so that you won't have to hover the mouse on the text box just to change status.

[niktorthenat]

BTW: When you make the PasswordField property = False, you can trigger a redraw by making Control(txtFacebook).Redraw = True, so that you won't have to hover the mouse on the text box just to change status.

Thank you so much Fellippe. Grazie!

[SpriggsySpriggs]

That's some cool videos on using CHAIN. I've never used chain before but I might now!

[gaslouk]

Hi guys.

Surely there will be other commands like the Chain that are still unknown to us.

Good afternoon from Greece.

[FellippeHeitor]

Hi. Bear in mind that CHAIN considers your program is still running in QB64's folder, since it'll act like SHELL but if the binary isn't found it'll trigger a compilation.

That makes it barely portable.

[SpriggsySpriggs]

For portability you can take all the exe files that you intend to CHAIN and put them into an SFX archive that will be used as an EXE that way all the files stay with the main executable that you wish to CHAIN from. This solves the portability issue.