you can also use the same form resource with different handlers. i.e.
create your form with all the necessary UI elements, write a couple of
different handlers, when you call the form using FrmGotoForm associate it
with the appropriate handler. Most of the time I use this method, the
handler functions use different setup and cleanup routines but common code
to run the dialog.
But as Steve pointed out, I only do this when the functionality of the
dialogs matches very closely, the UIs are identical or I have the
opportunity to hide the unnecessary UI elements. Otherwise I use separate
dialogs.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Mann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 1:11 AM
Subject: Re: How do I reuse a form
> >But... I'm missing something.... I need to populate the form with
different
> >types of information and consequently need something like:
> >
> >CallForm(FormID,param1,param2, etc...)
>
> You're not going to find that I'm afraid. You have a two choices that
> I can see, based on your scant information:
>
> -- Create separate forms and call them explicitly;
> -- Create a generic form, set a global, and do the form-specific
> stuff in the form handler based on the global. That's just moving the
> form-specific stuff from one location in your code to another as far
> as I can see.
>
> Maybe you could do what you want with C++ also. I don't know, not
> knowing much about it.
>
> You can reuse forms, to some extent, if you factor your functionality
> carefully. If you're just getting started with this stuff, however, I
> would suggest you just do it the hard way and forget about elegant
> generic forms until you have a better understanding of how the
> architecture works.
>
> If you provide more specific information, perhaps someone can give
> you a more useful response.
>
> Regards,
> Steve Mann
>
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