[AccessD] Multi-Instance Forms re-visited

You could give your form a public property to hold the equivalent of
OpenArgs and then set it in the code after you instantiated the new form
instance.  Try reading it in the Load event of the form.  Or set the
form's filter property if you need to.

Charlotte Foust


-----Original Message-----
From: Francisco Tapia [mailto:fhtapia at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 10:40 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: [AccessD] Multi-Instance Forms re-visited


So I have the following code in a public module..

the purpose is to have more than one instance of the form where end
users can start "multiple calls" and then keep starting newer calls.

the following code works really well and in fact I can do what I need
with it, except passing openargs... I figure I can use a workaround
unless someone here knows of a better way?

thanks,

---CODE SNIP------------
Option Compare Database
Option Explicit
'Author:    Allen J Browne, January 2000
'Email:     abrowne at odyssey.apana.org.au

Public clnClient As New Collection  'Instances of frmClient.

Function OpenAClient()
    'Purpose:   Open an independent instance of form frmClient.
    Dim frm As Form
    
    'Open a new instance, show it, and set a caption.
    Set frm = New Form_frmClient
    frm.Visible = True
    frm.Caption = frm.Hwnd & ", opened " & Now()
    
    'Append it to our collection.
    clnClient.Add Item:=frm, Key:=CStr(frm.Hwnd)
    Set frm = Nothing
End Function

Function CloseAllClients()
    'Purpose: Close all instances in the clnClient collection.
    'Note: Leaves the copy opened directly from database window.
    Dim lngKt As Long
    Dim lngI As Long
    
    lngKt = clnClient.Count
    For lngI = 1 To lngKt
        clnClient.Remove 1
    Next
End Function
---END CODE SNIP-----------------

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