Closing Winforms

[ksedran]

Hi all,

I am running into an issue trying to close a form from another form.

I have a main form called MainForm.

A child form is opened in the MainForm as follows:
Dim Form2 As New Form2
Form2.MdiParent = Me
Form2.Show()

Now from Form2 I am opening another form as follows:
Dim Form3 As New Form3
Form3.MdiParent = Me.MdiParent
Form3.Show()

Form3 has 1 button that when pressed I want it to close Form2.
Form3 has another button when pressed I want it to return the focus to form2.

Don't know why I am having problems with this, doesn't seem like a
compicated thing to do. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

--
Kevin

[ksedran]

RE: Closing Winforms

I forgot to put another question in my original post.

I was wondering if there was a way to access functions on form2 from form3.

For example, when a button is clicked on form3, some action is performed on
form2, like a datagrid refresh for instance.

Thanks again.



"ksedran" wrote:
[color=blue]
> Hi all,
>
> I am running into an issue trying to close a form from another form.
>
> I have a main form called MainForm.
>
> A child form is opened in the MainForm as follows:
> Dim Form2 As New Form2
> Form2.MdiParent = Me
> Form2.Show()
>
> Now from Form2 I am opening another form as follows:
> Dim Form3 As New Form3
> Form3.MdiParent = Me.MdiParent
> Form3.Show()
>
> Form3 has 1 button that when pressed I want it to close Form2.
> Form3 has another button when pressed I want it to return the focus to form2.
>
> Don't know why I am having problems with this, doesn't seem like a
> compicated thing to do. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> --
> Kevin[/color]

[[Alan Flores]]

RE: Closing Winforms

create a holder class

public class AllForms

public Form1 as form1
public Form2 as form2

End class

put this code on each of the form :

private Forms as AllForms

now when you try to create the form add one more line..

Dim 2ndForm As New Form2
2ndForm.MdiPare nt = Me
Forms.Form2 = 2ndForm
2ndForm.Show()

you can Forms.Form2.Clo se()
so you can access Forms.Form2.Met hodInForm2

do the same in form 1..


"ksedran" wrote:
[color=blue]
> I forgot to put another question in my original post.
>
> I was wondering if there was a way to access functions on form2 from form3.
>
> For example, when a button is clicked on form3, some action is performed on
> form2, like a datagrid refresh for instance.
>
> Thanks again.
>
>
>
> "ksedran" wrote:
>[color=green]
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am running into an issue trying to close a form from another form.
> >
> > I have a main form called MainForm.
> >
> > A child form is opened in the MainForm as follows:
> > Dim Form2 As New Form2
> > Form2.MdiParent = Me
> > Form2.Show()
> >
> > Now from Form2 I am opening another form as follows:
> > Dim Form3 As New Form3
> > Form3.MdiParent = Me.MdiParent
> > Form3.Show()
> >
> > Form3 has 1 button that when pressed I want it to close Form2.
> > Form3 has another button when pressed I want it to return the focus to form2.
> >
> > Don't know why I am having problems with this, doesn't seem like a
> > compicated thing to do. Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > --
> > Kevin[/color][/color]

[ksedran]

RE: Closing Winforms

Thanks Alan, that worked great!!


"[Alan Flores]" wrote:
[color=blue]
> create a holder class
>
> public class AllForms
>
> public Form1 as form1
> public Form2 as form2
>
> End class
>
> put this code on each of the form :
>
> private Forms as AllForms
>
> now when you try to create the form add one more line..
>
> Dim 2ndForm As New Form2
> 2ndForm.MdiPare nt = Me
> Forms.Form2 = 2ndForm
> 2ndForm.Show()
>
> you can Forms.Form2.Clo se()
> so you can access Forms.Form2.Met hodInForm2
>
> do the same in form 1..
>
>
> "ksedran" wrote:
>[color=green]
> > I forgot to put another question in my original post.
> >
> > I was wondering if there was a way to access functions on form2 from form3.
> >
> > For example, when a button is clicked on form3, some action is performed on
> > form2, like a datagrid refresh for instance.
> >
> > Thanks again.
> >
> >
> >
> > "ksedran" wrote:
> >[color=darkred]
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I am running into an issue trying to close a form from another form.
> > >
> > > I have a main form called MainForm.
> > >
> > > A child form is opened in the MainForm as follows:
> > > Dim Form2 As New Form2
> > > Form2.MdiParent = Me
> > > Form2.Show()
> > >
> > > Now from Form2 I am opening another form as follows:
> > > Dim Form3 As New Form3
> > > Form3.MdiParent = Me.MdiParent
> > > Form3.Show()
> > >
> > > Form3 has 1 button that when pressed I want it to close Form2.
> > > Form3 has another button when pressed I want it to return the focus to form2.
> > >
> > > Don't know why I am having problems with this, doesn't seem like a
> > > compicated thing to do. Any ideas?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Kevin[/color][/color][/color]