| re: Problem Communicating Between Forms
Simple Solution:
Have the first form subscribe to the second form's Closing event... like
this:
Dim frm as New Form2
AddHandler(frm.Closing, AddressOf MyForm2ClosingProc)
frm.Show
You can also create a new custom event in the second form that could
communicate additional info to the first form.
Better Solution
Create a global Notifier class that forms can subscribe to and "hear"
chatter from other forms. When the second form is closing it can do
something like: GlobalNotifier.SendNotification(Me,"Hey I'm Closing AND I
updated some data")
This is soooo simple to do.
'declare this in a global module
Public GlobalNotifier As New Notifier
'notifier class
Public Class Notifier
Public Event Notify(sender As Object, e As NotifyEventArgs)
Public Sub SendNotifications(sender As Object, message as String)
RaiseEvent Notify(sender, New NotifyEventArgs(message))
End Sub
End Class
'... I think you can figure out the rest.
"Jasper Jones" <jasperjoe@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1139097125.941950.249540@f14g2000cwb.googlegr oups.com...[color=blue]
>I have a main form which has a list of items from a table on my
> database. If I click one of these items it brings up a second form
> which lets you edit the details for that item. If I change an item's
> details and then close the edit form I want the main form to update its
> datagrid by calling the sub I wrote which refreshes the dataset.
>
> What is the best method of doing this; I know I can call commands after
> a showdialog form but I really don't want to use showdialog instead of
> show.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please try and be specific as
> I'm still quite new to the Dot Net way of doing things.
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