Navigation buttons

[lotus18]

Hello World


My client wants to me to add navigation keys for the MDIChild forms (Just like a Windows Explorer). When using CTRL + F6 it would go to the next form again and again. My problem is, how can I make disable the buttons (next or back) if I reached the first or the last form? Any ideas? Thanks : )


Rey Sean

[debasisdas]

is your number of child forms fixed ?

[lotus18]

is your number of child forms fixed ?

What do you mean by fixed? I really have no idea about that : )

[Ali Rizwan]

Hello World


My client wants to me to add navigation keys for the MDIChild forms (Just like a Windows Explorer). When using CTRL + F6 it would go to the next form again and again. My problem is, how can I make disable the buttons (next or back) if I reached the first or the last form? Any ideas? Thanks : )


Rey Sean

In Explorer explorer only saves a fixed number of contents.
So declare an array or insert a list control or do some thing like that and when you open a form on its load event saves its name in that array or menu and so on. When ever u click on back it opens the last form getting his id or name from the history list and move that item to previous navigation list. I think this will help if you want some more help plz tell me so that i ll make an example for you.

Regards
>> ALI <<

[lotus18]

In Explorer explorer only saves a fixed number of contents.
So declare an array or insert a list control or do some thing like that and when you open a form on its load event saves its name in that array or menu and so on. When ever u click on back it opens the last form getting his id or name from the history list and move that item to previous navigation list. I think this will help if you want some more help plz tell me so that i ll make an example for you.

Regards
>> ALI <<

OK Ali, can you give me an example for this one?

[Killer42]

My client wants to me to add navigation keys for the MDIChild forms (Just like a Windows Explorer). When using CTRL + F6 it would go to the next form again and again. My problem is, how can I make disable the buttons (next or back) if I reached the first or the last form? Any ideas? Thanks : )

If the user can switch from the last to the first form directly by using the mouse, then maybe you shouldn't disallow it through the keyboard.

But in any case, how about this...

Let's say you have five child forms, called Form1 through Form5.
Create a public variable, let's say LastForm.

In each form's Deactivate event procedure, set LastMsg to Me.Name.
In the Activate event procedure for Form2, do something like...
If LastForm = "Form5"
Form5.Show
End If

And something similar, though reversed, in Form5.

This is probably an ugly way of going about it, but seems to work.