New form or panel etc.

[Zath]

What's the best way to proceed ?
I currently have a single form with various edit components etc. to perform a task.
I have now added a menu option that will call a new form for a different task.
There will be multiple tasks to perform.
Should I call a new form every time or have a panel containing each set of components and call a new panel each time?
The forms will all be the same size and will reference the same directory for the files being accessed.

What is the preferred or correct design here ?

[Blaazen]

It's difficult to say (I can only guess what "task" and "different task" really is).
I think you can try TPageControl and its Tabs can be visible or invisible.

[Zath]

The tasks involve various filelists, memobox etc. to edit text files.

[kpeters58]

I do not think that there's a definitive answer. All three ways that have been mentioned thus far will create the results you are after.

Personally, I would either go with the page control as it eases design work considerably or, if there is large amounts of task specific code, with separate forms which I would derive from a common ancestor form to easily share looks and common functionality.

I am sure others would come up with yet unnamed methods to do things like this.....

[Zath]

Ok, thanks for the ideas.