Re: ReLoad Form Problem - C# Discussion Boards

17-Jul-07 0:14

I am working on a small game , and i have a problem --
when the user win a message box appear asking him if he want to play again if he answered -yes- the form must be shown again as it was in the beginning of the game , and i do not know how to reload the form Confused | :confused:

thanks ,
Mona

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Luc Pattyn17-Jul-07 0:27

17-Jul-07 0:27

Hi,

AFAIK you can load a form only once. But you can show and hide it many times
using either Show()/Hide() methods or setting Visible property true/false.

Apart from that, you could create a new instance of your form, which would give you its
initial state automatically (wanted or not).

Smile | :)

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monafr8117-Jul-07 1:14

17-Jul-07 1:14

thank you Luc Pattyn for your replay

I do an instance in a method and hide the current form ,and it works , but i think when i hide the current form to call the new instance that i make an over load in memory because the current form is still exists .
what do you think , How can i close the current form to cal its new instance ??

thanks again Smile | :)

Mona

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Luc Pattyn17-Jul-07 1:25

17-Jul-07 1:25

why would you do that ?

it is one or the other:

1. create a single instance, and now loop {initialize variables, show, hide} until app exits

OR

2. loop {create an instance, show, close } until app exits

it does not make sense to create a new instance, while a previous one is still around
(hidden instead of closed).

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monafr8117-Jul-07 1:50

17-Jul-07 1:50

Sorry Luc Patty , I do not understand you , ok lets go slowly

first :
the user choose new game > The PlagGame Form Will Be shown(By Calling The Create Method witch create an instance from PlayGame Form).

Second :
the user Win Or Lose a Message Box Appear And Asking Him If He Want Play again ??-the PlayGame Form Still Exist -

third:
in this step i need to ReShow the PlayGame Form to looks like an other new game if i hide the current PlayGame form i need than to call it again with out create another instance How can I ????

sorry I know that my question may be bored Blush | :O

thanks any way
Mona

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Luc Pattyn17-Jul-07 1:53

17-Jul-07 1:53

Adding to my previous reply:
you may find it difficult to organize the looping in a single form; the natural solution
is to have two form classes, the main one organizing the looping (and maybe showing highest
scores, or whatever), the second one representing a single game.

So now the app would:

create and show a main form,
then loop over the following steps {
create a game form,
show it (maybe as a dialog) (and maybe you want to temporarily hide the main form)
let the game run,
when the game is done, make mainform visible again (if hidden), and close the game form
}

As I said before you could reuse the game form (by hiding, not closing it), but I
see no real advantage here, since now you must reinitialize the game form explicitly
for consecutive runs of the game.

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monafr8117-Jul-07 2:06

17-Jul-07 2:06

of course you are Right ,and i did what you said when the user finish close the game form an return to the main form .

but i do not want to return to the main form again after finishing the game , i want the game form to reshow again as if it reloaded ,that is the problem . Sniff | :^)

Mona

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Luc Pattyn17-Jul-07 2:09

17-Jul-07 2:09

The main form can organize that without being visible.

And as I said before, the game form can either be reused or be replaced by a new
instance (that would cause some flickering I guess).

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Nisar Inamdar17-Jul-07 0:27

Nisar Inamdar

17-Jul-07 0:27

Hi Mona,
you do one thing.....

Create one function which loads the form and then recall it .
example---------
MessageBox.Show("Are you want to play Again??????","Play Game",MessageBoxButtons.YesNo)==DialogResult.Yes)
{
///call the functio here...........
}

Nisar Inamdar

monafr8117-Jul-07 1:07

17-Jul-07 1:07

thank you Nisar Inamdar for your replay .

i do a method witch create an instant from the form and call it and hide the current form ,and it works .

but i have a question when i hide the current form every time the user win or lose the form still exists ,do you think that is over load in memory , and bad performance , i do not know i am asking

thanks again for your Useful Replay Smile | :)

Mona ,

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PhilDanger17-Jul-07 4:55

PhilDanger

17-Jul-07 4:55

I believe you can do a Form.Close() and then a Form.Dispose() in order to clean up the memory, instead of having the form stick around w/ Form.Hide.