Wait for user response on opened form

[HooHa]

I am writing a program that has a portion which downloads files into a
selected directory. It first checks to see if the file exists if the
file exists it opens another form with buttons related to
overwriting, renaming etc. What is the proper way in windows forms
programming to open a new form and wait for the reponse of the form.
Currently I open it with form.show(); form.focus(); In the form I have
a variable set based on the user's input and I would like the program
to halt until there is a response. Related to this I would like the
new form to have focus and maintain focus. i.e. I don't want the
user to be able to navigate back to the mainform and have access to
that functionality. Your help is greatly appreciated.

[Ben Bloom]

HooHa wrote:

I am writing a program that has a portion which downloads files into a
selected directory. It first checks to see if the file exists if the
file exists it opens another form with buttons related to
overwriting, renaming etc. What is the proper way in windows forms
programming to open a new form and wait for the reponse of the form.
Currently I open it with form.show(); form.focus(); In the form I have
a variable set based on the user's input and I would like the program
to halt until there is a response. Related to this I would like the
new form to have focus and maintain focus. i.e. I don't want the
user to be able to navigate back to the mainform and have access to
that functionality. Your help is greatly appreciated.

Try form.ShowDialog();
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[Kai Brinkmann [MSFT]]

Open the second form as a modal dialog. When calling the form from within
your first form:

form2.ShowDialog(this); // this - your first form - is the owner of
the modal dialog

Form 2 will behave lilke a modal dialog now (such as the OpenFileDialog and
similar classes) and any code after the ShowDialog() method is not executed
until the modal dialog is closed.

Hope that helps.

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I am writing a program that has a portion which downloads files into a
selected directory. It first checks to see if the file exists if the
file exists it opens another form with buttons related to
overwriting, renaming etc. What is the proper way in windows forms
programming to open a new form and wait for the reponse of the form.
Currently I open it with form.show(); form.focus(); In the form I have
a variable set based on the user's input and I would like the program
to halt until there is a response. Related to this I would like the
new form to have focus and maintain focus. i.e. I don't want the
user to be able to navigate back to the mainform and have access to
that functionality. Your help is greatly appreciated.

[HooHa]

Thank you both for your answers! That is exactly what I needed.

Cheers