Really need help with Opening Form2,3,4,5 with buttons from Form 1 (With conditions)

Hello !

I'm pretty much newbie in creating a succesful GUI in C++.
Although, i managed to create 4 buttons that should show a certain form.
Lets say, Form1 is my main form, therefore - Button 1 will open Form2, and Button 2 will open Form3.....
But the conditions is - If there is a form that is already open, clicking again on the Button that should open it, will Close it, but all the forms (form1,2,3,4,5) can be enabled together.
Also, a very important note is that whenever i close a form, in any way of closing it (Not the main form) It will "save" the changes i made (Such as ticking checkboxes and so..) and won't reopen it, it will just use "Visible" i guess ?
I couldn't get it on google, really =/
Please help me out !

Notes :
If i use Form2 ^form2show = gcnew Form2;
and then Form2->Show();
I will be able to simply ATTACK the button and open Billions of form2 ^_^
Although, when i use Form2->ShowDialog();
It won't let me open the form3,4,5.
Which isn't so bad, but when i exit from the form2, it won't save my changes (Such as checkboxes..)
Plaese, HELP ME =/

I'm stucked so hard on this sht...

Make Form2 ^form2show class member in the main form. When it is null, create and show it. If not null, do something else, for example, hide/show it.

Then you need to override FormClosing event in Form2. If closing reason is user interaction, hide the form instead of closing it.

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Originally Posted by Alex F

Make Form2 ^form2show class member in the main form. When it is null, create and show it. If not null, do something else, for example, hide/show it.

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so, my code will be :

Form2 ^form2show= gcnew form2;
if(form2show = NULL)
{
form2show->Show();
}
else
{
form2show->Hide();
}

In the first button.
But it says it cannot convert int to Duffyduck::Form2 ^ with the operator '='...
Also, i assume (without building the project) that whenever i'll press the ('X') button in the form2, it will exit and won't recover it well..

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Originally Posted by Alex F

Then you need to override FormClosing event in Form2. If closing reason is user interaction, hide the form instead of closing it.

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To be honest, i already tried the FormClosing event...
Never got it to work,
If you have time to make a source with a button that does the conditions, it will really be greatful !
And really thanks for helping me !

Please read my post again: Make Form2 ^form2show class member in the main form

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Originally Posted by Alex F

Please read my post again: Make Form2 ^form2show class member in the main form

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Alright, now i understood it better,
Although, still can't understand a certain thing - How can i check if its null? or if the closing reason is actually a user interaction ? (To be honest, it doesnt matter for me, just need to hide it)..

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Originally Posted by Duffyduck

How can i check if its null?

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The correct expresion to check for that condition is form2show == nullptr instead of form2show = NULL. The NULL macro is intended for use with native pointers, as opposed to the managed tracking handles used in .NET, and the single = operator is an assignment (i.e. it modifies the object at its left-hand side) rather than the equality test you want.

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or if the closing reason is actually a user interaction ?

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The event args parameter passed to your FormClosing event handler has a CloseReason property that indicates just what its name suggests: the reason why the form is about to be closed. One of its possible values is CloseReason::UserClosing. You then may set the event args object's Cancel property to true to prevent the form from actually being closed, if your checks indicate that it's appropriate.