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Displaying a New Child Form

The next bit of coding we need to deal with involves creating and displaying a new instance of frmChild, the child form. The user might reasonably expect that when the program is first executed, it opens with a blank document window displayed (as Excel does, for example). In addition, there will be a New command on the File menu to allow the user to open new document windows as needed. Because this functionality (opening and displaying a new document window) needs to be invoked from more than one place in the program, it makes sense to code it as a custom procedure.

Creating the NewChild Procedure

We will name the custom procedure NewChild, and it is to be coded as a part of the frmParent class. To create the NewChild ...