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drpepper1324
drpepper1324

Reputation: 133

Save Separate Settings for Copies of the same Form

I have a form, when I right click it, you can select properties, which opens a settings Form that interacts directly with the previous form, ie, it can change the color, size and other properties of the the original form. I want Several Copies of the original form running.

As it Stands, all the new forms take their settings from the same My.settings.

1st How Can I Save all the settings from each copy of the original form, Separately? right now im using Form1.show(), and dim newform as form1 = new form1.

2nd, how can I make sure the settings form is interacting only with their respective original form? right now, all the new settings Forms are only interacting with the same original form.

I have a jumble of data types saved, about 10 settings, and 2 of them are Specialized.string to save matrixes

Upvotes: 0

Views: 31

Answers (1)

Sideways
Sideways

Reputation: 286

Firstly, I recommend not using My.Settings in this case, since it only serves the purpose of storing global settings. You'll need to store the settings in the Form1 class for each instance seperately, these could then be saved to a file or in the registry.

To your second question, in the settings form class, add a parameter to the Form.Show method, which is used to pass the instance of a main form object to the settings form. This will tie a newly opened settings form to a particular main form. This could look like this:

Class SettingsForm
    Shadows Sub Show(parentForm As Form1)
        'The parentForm paramter will be the Form1 instance which will be controlled by this settings window
    End Sub
End Class

You then just call the SettingsForm.Show method and pass the instance of the Form1 object you want to control to the method.

Upvotes: 1

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