Forms Application

[lt_navvara]

I won't be posting this at once since my putter keeps restarting, i'll be editing it very often instead.

 

So i finnaly got the program and it's grat i cannot believe how stupid i was to be sticking with visual studio instead of this. There's so many new things i can do with it, includinga form based application.

 

But here's the problem: I want to have some sort of a connection between different forms, have one form start another but when i try to run another form and launch it from a form by calling Application::Run(new newForm); i get the following message: "starting a second message que on a thread is illegal".

i can start a new form without getting this message, or any other error by calling either Application::Exit or Form::dispose, these both kill the old form's message que instanly and allow me to run a new form. the problem here is that the new form runs and closes imediately.

I really need my program to start new forms from another, lets say when a button is pressed so any ideas guys?

 

i have some of my own but i dunno how to implement them:

 

-having the form return a value to the winmain function and let the form creation be handled there, unfortunately i dunno how to have a form return a value

and writing a return 1 in the button's code won't help as the button is declared as a void function. besided since the form is a deiiferent application from the winmain the mesage won't know where to go.

 

-making an invisible window and letting that run and receive messages from forms an handle the creation. i think that SendMessage or similar funtions would work but the problem here is that since the form is an external app i dunno how to get the invisible's window handle

 

-starting a new thread whenever a new form is to be created, this might work ut it's too complicated and due to the architecture of my app i ould rather not use it.

 

-calling Form::StartDialog(new newForm); won't do the trick for me although it's recomended by the error message.

 

One other thing, whatever method you (hopefully) propose i would like it to include some sort of external function or callback that handles the form creation as in version 2 of the app i plan to have it receive it's messages through directplay rathr than them being sent by a form running on that putter (have forms creation messages sent by a remote putter and have a sort of clien-server app).

A method that just links forms together would also be fine, actually anything would be fine.

Edited December 29, 2005 by lt_navvara