How to: Hide a Form

You can hide a form so that it is not visible to a user. When the form is hidden, the user cannot interact with the form, but you still have full programmatic control of them.

To hide a form

• Use the Hide Method.

  For example, in the code associated with the Click Event of a command button, you could include the following line of code:

  THISFORM.Hide
  

When the user clicks the command button, the form remains in memory, but is not visible.

Releasing Forms

You can allow a user to release a form when he or she is finished interacting with it. When you release a form, you can no longer access properties and methods of the form.

To release a form

• Call the Release Method.

For example, in the code associated with the Click Event of a command button, you could include the following line of code:

THISFORM.Release

When the user clicks the command button, the form closes.

See Also

Tasks

Example of Manipulating Objects

How to: Pass Parameters to a Form

How to: Save a Form as HTML

How to: Manage Multiple Instances of a Form

Other Resources

Working with Forms

Creating Forms