Switching between forms....

Tony

Hey Everybody,

What I'm trying to do is similate form switching like you would find in a setup wizard when installing some program. Where you have the next and back buttons remain static and whatever is above those buttons changes (switches forms - or at least that's what I think happens). Another example would be the way in which Spybot displays different forms on the right side of the program when clicking the buttons to the left.

Hiding the current form and displaying the next using Show() or ShowDialog() just doesn't seem like the best approach to handle what I want done.

Any idea how I would be able to similate the switching between forms like you would find in a setup wizard?

Thanks for the help :).

- Tonez

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Ryan Alford18y ago
the easiest way to have all the forms the same size with the same buttons and button placement, create a "BaseForm" and design it like you want it, without the text. Then when creating the other forms, inherit the "BaseForm".
18y ago
You could always create all of the forms that you need, then on each of the forms Closing event, open the next form and let the old form close.