Copy of Control

Select all using mouse, choose copy, switch forms, choose paste.
Repeat for all code in the code Window.

Select all using mouse, choose copy, switch forms, choose paste.
Repeat for all code in the code Window.

So, what's the catch?

At run time or design time?

Hi!

Why don't you do this: Duplicate the form instead.  Assuming that the form is called Form2,

Add this code to a module:

Public Sub LoadNewDoc()
    Static lFormCount As Long
    Dim frmD As Form2

    lFormCount = lFormCount + 1
    Set frmD = New Form2
    frmD.Show
End Sub

Then, to make a duplicate of Form2, add this line:

LoadNewDoc

By the way, do make sure that you do not use te line:

LoadNewDoc

IN FORM2 ITSELF or there will be a memory overflow.

That's it!

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Oops!  Sorry about 1 mistake.  You CAN USE IT (ie. LoadNewDoc) in Form2 in the previous case, PROVIDED that you do not place it in the Form_Load() procedure or it would cause the new copy to load another new copy and so on and so forth until all your memory is used up.

That's it!

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i want to copy all controls at the run time not at the design time.

If might make more sense to simply reference them on on the first form, or make the first form flexible enough to accomodate both.

Why re-invent the wheel if the first wheel has everything you need except one or two things.

The easier way is to build a form that handles both jobs, then set visible=false for those things you don't need at the moment.  Set visible=true when you DO need them.

Create a custom user control and create instances of it on each form.

What would happen would be that an identical Form2 would appear.  Before the frmD.show line, you could add some stuff like frmD.Caption = "Duplicate" or whatever.