Hosting Forms + events question

[Darren Guy]

Hello

I have a main form that has a tab control. Each tab will host a form

So after creating each child form, I run the following code to attach it to
a tab

frm.Owner = this;
frm.TopLevel = false;
frm.WindowState = FormWindowState.Maximized;
frm.FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyle.None;
tab.Controls.Add(frm);
frm.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
frm.Show();

My question is how do I raise an event on the child form so that the main
form can react to this event. Specifically I want the main form to know if
the child form displayed is editing or browsing data

Thanks in advance
Darren

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

Hi,

I have never seen that approach, inserting a Form inside another Form, not
even sure if possible though. Usually you have one form and each tabpage has
controls but everything is inside the same form.

A possible solution is that the parent form declare a method that the child
forms can call whenever they need to inform a change of status, you would
have to pass a reference to this parent form in the constructors of the
child.
That the best suggestion I can think of right now
cheers,

--
Ignacio Machin,
ignacio.machin AT dot.state.fl.us
Florida Department Of Transportation

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Hello

I have a main form that has a tab control. Each tab will host a form

So after creating each child form, I run the following code to attach it
to a tab

frm.Owner = this;
frm.TopLevel = false;
frm.WindowState = FormWindowState.Maximized;
frm.FormBorderStyle = FormBorderStyle.None;
tab.Controls.Add(frm);
frm.Dock = DockStyle.Fill;
frm.Show();

My question is how do I raise an event on the child form so that the main
form can react to this event. Specifically I want the main form to know if
the child form displayed is editing or browsing data

Thanks in advance
Darren