Can anyone help me?

I have an array of form names which during the operation of an application,
the user would move through a series of steps (the forms).

I cannot seem to evaluate the contents of the string so that I can the name
to enable me to display the form on the screen:

Dim strFormNames(10)

StrFormNames(1) = "frmFirstForm"
StrFormNames(2) = "frmSecondForm"
StrFormNames(3) = "frmThirdForm"

I have tried:

 Dim objFormName as Form
 Set objFormName = strFormNames(1)

 objFormName.Show

 ......  This causes an error.

How do I use the contents of the string, so that I can show the form???

Please help!!!

: I cannot seem to evaluate the contents of the string so that I can the
name
: to enable me to display the form on the screen:
:
: Dim strFormNames(10)
:
: StrFormNames(1) = "frmFirstForm"
: StrFormNames(2) = "frmSecondForm"
: StrFormNames(3) = "frmThirdForm"

frm2Show = StrFormNames(1)

Select case frm2Show

     case StrFormNames(1)
        frmFirstForm.show
     case StrFormNames(2)
        frmSecondForm.show

 ...etc.

I'm totally amazed at the number of programmers wanting to pass form names
as strings, and expecting that VB should know when to treat the same thing
as both a string value and an object.

--
Randy Birch, MVP Visual Basic

Moderator, Fidonet Visual Basic Programmer's Conference
VBnet, The Visual Basic Developers Resource Centre
http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/rasanen/

: Can anyone help me?
:
: I have an array of form names which during the operation of an
application,
: the user would move through a series of steps (the forms).
:
: I cannot seem to evaluate the contents of the string so that I can the
name
: to enable me to display the form on the screen:
:
: Dim strFormNames(10)
:
: StrFormNames(1) = "frmFirstForm"
: StrFormNames(2) = "frmSecondForm"
: StrFormNames(3) = "frmThirdForm"
:
:
: I have tried:
:
:  Dim objFormName as Form
:  Set objFormName = strFormNames(1)
:
:  objFormName.Show
:
:  ......  This causes an error.
:
: How do I use the contents of the string, so that I can show the form???
:
: Please help!!!
:
:

:
:
:

Hello Robert

You can't do what you want to do in Visual Basic.  Not exactly anyway.
what you could do is:

Private MyForms as collection

Myforms.Add Key:=frmFirstForm.Name, Item:=frmFirstForm
Myforms.Add Key:=frmSecondForm.Name, Item:=frmSecondForm
Myforms.Add Key:=frmThirdForm.Name, Item:=frmThirdForm

Then you can do something like:

Dim AForm as Form
Set AForm = MyForms(frmFirstForm.Name)
Aform.Show

Hope that helps you do what you want to do.  But it would perhaps be better
if you gave up those old FoxPro ways and did things differently :-D
--
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Ibrahim,

You must be very familiar with FoxPro if you know macro sub....
Rather an odd admission for a VB guy <bg>

As one moving from VFP to VB, I'm very happy with VB except inheritance.
After all, VC++, VJ, and VFP all support it.  Life (at work) would be much
better if only...
Then again, I did stop using VFP, except for OLE data servers.

BTW, thanks for all your time spent in the CServe forums.

Greg Longtin