The Form Methods

The Form Methods

Different methods are used in forms. When you put a dot after name of the form then a popup menu is displayed.

There are different methods for forms .Some of them are describing here.

Show method

Show method is used to display the form object.

For Example to display the form frmStudents,

following code is written:

frmStudents.Show

Hide Method

The Hide method is used to hide a form.

For example to hide a form, following code is written:

frmStudents.Hide

The Cls Method

All text and graphics on the form that were created with Print and graphics methods can be deleted with the Cls method.

Example: frmStudents.Cls

The Refresh Method

Forces a complete repaint of a form.

For example:

form1.Refresh

Use the Refresh method when you want to Completely display one form, while another form loads.

Point Method

Returns the red-green-blue (RGB) color of the specified point on a Form. It returns color as a long integer.

form1.Point(x, y)