B4J Question How to do B4J form stuff (hide, return login form details)

1. Form.Close will hide the form. You can later call Form.Show to show it. Closing the main form will end the app. There are simple ways to prevent it.

2. Forms are regular objects like any other objects. You do not pass data between forms. You pass data between modules or classes. Just call the sub you like with the data you need to pass.

3. See the three pages example: https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/getting-started-examples.57537/#content

Erel said:

1. Form.Close will hide the form. You can later call Form.Show to show it. Closing the main form will end the app. There are simple ways to prevent it.

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1. If the app closes when MainForm.Close is done, how would you hide MainForm then? (This would seem to mean that Main Form cannot be hidden?)

2. If I have a form (MainForm) that has a layout loaded (for example "Splash screen" layout) then I load another layout ("Main Menu" layout) the 2nd is shown displayed "over" the 1st? (i.e. you can see both layouts combined). What do I have to do to "clear" the MainForm if I wanted to display another layout in the same form?

thanks

Maybe this will help you understand

1. Adding a tray icon with jSystemTray will prevent the process from being killed. It is also possible to do it without an icon:

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Daestrum said:

Maybe this will help you understand

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Thanks, this has been useful for figuring out how to programmatically add controls to a form.

I am still trying to figure out a few things:

1. Where should a form's code reside? In VB6/VB.NET code is "behind" forms. (You create forms and then attach code to them). However, with B4J it seems forms are created (or layout loaded) with code? (i.e. Code runs first, forms created or managed as a result?)

2. What is the best practice for organizing form code and modules? Do you dump all form code in main or create code modules and manage each form from a different module?

3. In the code (from Daestrum's example) below, how come the app doesn't end when MainForm.Close? Does the app remain open because there is another form (loginForm) open before MainForm.Close?


4. In the above code, why do both the event handler for b.Initialize("login") and loginForm.Initialize("login",200,200) have the same name? Wouldn't you want different names to avoid confusion? (especially if both objects have same possible events) What would happen if both the button and the form had same named events?

Sorry for all the questions but B4J/JavaFX is a little different to what I have experience with and am trying to understand.

4, yes you are correct I should have named them differently - my bad.

3, in this sub

I check if the loginForm is visible on the desktop, if it is I consume the close eventdata, effectively refusing to close the mainform whilst the loginForm is about.

2 & 1 I leave for someone with better explanation than mine (code lives where I write it - not really helpful to you).