VB6 Grouping Of Projects

[Rambi]

I have been develpoing many projects, in Vb with Multiple forms
Each of the project has a unique name
I am in a process of puting all the modules together

The Problem
Unable to group all the projects together and make it a single EXE

Issues Faced : Unable to call froms of another project

project1 - set as the active project
form1
form2
form3
project2
form1
form2
form3

In project1 form1 I would like to activate and call the form2 from project2
and move back control to project1 form 1

The projects are all added in a common group

GURU's Please advise how this can be done

[JeffB]

You can't really do that. Even in a project group, each project is separated from the others. What you can do tho is to add a new form to project 1, choose "Select existing" and add the project2 form2 into the project1. So the form2 will be listed two times in the whole project group, but it will be the same form used, so any modification will be taken into account in both project

JeffB

[NatThoelecke]

Instead of trying to group the projects you should group the forms, modules, etc. you will use into a single project. For example, let's say you have the following projects with forms and modules (the bold names are what you will use in your final project):

project1

• form1
• form2
• form3
• module1
• module2
• module3

project2

• form1
• form2
• module1
• module2

project3

• form1
• form2
• form3
• form4
• form5
• form6

Create a new project and add all of the forms and modules into it you may need to to some additional programming to insure all of the forms and modules work together but it will be easier than trying to link all of your projects together in a project group. You will also need to rename some forms and modules so there aren't any conflicts. Your new project listing might look something like the following:

final_project

• form1 (from project1/form1)
• form2 (project1/form2)
• form3 (project2/form2)
• form4 (project3/form2)
• form5 (project3/form3)
• form6 (project3/form4)
• form7 (project3/form6)
• module1 (project1/module1)
• module2 (project1/module2)
• module3 (project1/module3)
• module4 (project2/module2)

And now I see JeffB beat me to saying the same thing.

[Rambi]

thanks NatThoelecke and JeffB

Your suggestion did work , and the business soultion that we were working got completed AUG end , the business product got launched yesteday 9th Sep , the project has totaly around 300 forms now seems to be working well
Thanks for the help and suggestions

[JeffB]

Nice, you're welcome

JeffB

[NatThoelecke]

Always happy to help.