I find myself having to deal with some delightful legacy software written in Gambas3. I have to extend the functionality of a small GUI application with a new control page.
Naturally, as for similar GUI libraries I've worked with (web, Android development, flutter, ...) I came looking for a way to navigate between different pages. It is almost implied as possible by the organization in .form
files.
Unfortunately, I couldn't find a way to achieve this. Given multiple different Form
objects, how can I swap the currently viewed window between them?
Thanks to the uses of the Gambas ONE forum I now have the answer.
To achieve a "form switch" one must hide/close the first form and show the next:
Public Sub Next_Click()
FSecond.Show
Me.Hide
End
Public Sub Return_Click()
FMain.Show
Me.Hide
End
Hiding the form will just make it disappear from view, closing it will destroy it (and following calls to Show
will create it again).