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There is no "Forms" menu, so your question doesn't make sense.
You can create a form, then go to the File menu, choose "Save as" and you can put the form anywhere you like.
This, however, would be an unwieldy way to organize your project, as it could lead to project files being scattered all over the place, perhaps even on devices that might become unavailable.
First, I think most people go the Hungarian notation route and name their forms "frmSomething", so all the forms stand out. Second, all the file types used by VB6 have their extensions registered, so all you need to do is sort your directory by extension and there you have it: organization by file type, which is what you wanted.
If you work alone, do whatever you want. If you work in an organization, it would be wise to see how everyone else expects projects to be organized: you know, a standard.
You can create a form, then go to the File menu, choose "Save as" and you can put the form anywhere you like.
This, however, would be an unwieldy way to organize your project, as it could lead to project files being scattered all over the place, perhaps even on devices that might become unavailable.
First, I think most people go the Hungarian notation route and name their forms "frmSomething", so all the forms stand out. Second, all the file types used by VB6 have their extensions registered, so all you need to do is sort your directory by extension and there you have it: organization by file type, which is what you wanted.
If you work alone, do whatever you want. If you work in an organization, it would be wise to see how everyone else expects projects to be organized: you know, a standard.
harebrain,
I suspect that you misunderstood the intent of the question.
In the VB6 IDE, when you look at the "Project Explorer" window (CTRL-R), you will see all of the "files" included in the project. There are 3 buttons in this window. View Code, View Object, Toggle Folders. In the "Folder" view, the code files are organized by type, Forms, Modules, Class Modules etc....
If In understand the question correctly, dvannoy wants to know if there is a way to further categorize the categories so that several forms could be grouped together, essentially expanding the tree view to include additional levels.
As far as I know, there is no way to create additional folders to further sub-categorize the source code files. I wouldn't be surprised if I am wrong, though.
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I suspect that you misunderstood the intent of the question.
In the VB6 IDE, when you look at the "Project Explorer" window (CTRL-R), you will see all of the "files" included in the project. There are 3 buttons in this window. View Code, View Object, Toggle Folders. In the "Folder" view, the code files are organized by type, Forms, Modules, Class Modules etc....
If In understand the question correctly, dvannoy wants to know if there is a way to further categorize the categories so that several forms could be grouped together, essentially expanding the tree view to include additional levels.
As far as I know, there is no way to create additional folders to further sub-categorize the source code files. I wouldn't be surprised if I am wrong, though.
-George
Microsoft SQL Server MVP
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"The great things about standards is that there are so many to choose from." - Fortune Cookie Wisdom
I think gmmastros is right. You can open your Project's vbp file in Notepad and see all your Forms, Modules, etc. If all your Forms are at the same place where vbp file is, you will not see any path to them. If you save any of your Forms in other locations, you will see where they are in your vbp. But they still will show up in VB IDE the same way.
Good idea, tho...
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Sorry for the late response...
Yeah, I'm just trying to find a way to better organzie all the forms I am creating.
gmmastros,
You are right in what I am trying to do. Sorry if I wasn't very clear.
another question... maybe, what if I creating several different projects, and added those projects into a "master" project. do you think somthing like that might work? what I'm trying to do is create an ONE application that handles several seperate applications. this way my users lauch only one application with one user name and password and I will control security within the application.
Any ideas?
Yeah, I'm just trying to find a way to better organzie all the forms I am creating.
gmmastros,
You are right in what I am trying to do. Sorry if I wasn't very clear.
another question... maybe, what if I creating several different projects, and added those projects into a "master" project. do you think somthing like that might work? what I'm trying to do is create an ONE application that handles several seperate applications. this way my users lauch only one application with one user name and password and I will control security within the application.
Any ideas?
well.... let me tell you a story....
I started my software company 13 years ago. About a year later, I had Version 1.0 ready. At the time, there was about 20 forms in my application, about 20 class modules, etc....
Over the years, the application expanded. At some point, it became too difficult to manage everything as one executable, so I split out pieces of functionality and made ActiveX dll's out of various pieces.
Today, there's about 500 forms scattered over 100 dll's, still with just one executable.
-George
Microsoft SQL Server MVP
My Blogs
SQLCop
"The great things about standards is that there are so many to choose from." - Fortune Cookie Wisdom
I started my software company 13 years ago. About a year later, I had Version 1.0 ready. At the time, there was about 20 forms in my application, about 20 class modules, etc....
Over the years, the application expanded. At some point, it became too difficult to manage everything as one executable, so I split out pieces of functionality and made ActiveX dll's out of various pieces.
Today, there's about 500 forms scattered over 100 dll's, still with just one executable.
-George
Microsoft SQL Server MVP
My Blogs
SQLCop
"The great things about standards is that there are so many to choose from." - Fortune Cookie Wisdom
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