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I hv two forms on my project, one form is the main program to calculate something, second form is for setting price ,program will show second form when user clicks from menu to display the second form, the problem here is when i click command on first form to calculate something like timer, then at the same time i click on the menu to display second form and input something on the second form, after that quit the second form by clicking button i provide to user , the code for the quit button on the second form is 'UNLOAD ME', then when QUIT second form, the FIRST form seem to reset from the beginning which i don't want it to,i want first form remain doing its job, when i quit SECOND FORM, thank you
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by: Idle_MindPosted on 2007-06-07 at 17:42:08ID: 19238810
You can make code in the first form stop by showing the second form as Modal:
Dim f2 As New Form2
f2.Show vbModal
But Timers are a different story. You have to manually stop them, and then restart them:
Timer1.Enabled = False
Dim f2 As New Form2
f2.Show vbModal
Timer1.Enabled = True