delegate returning string how do i capture it?

[Raj Chudasama]

i have the following
public event ButtonPressedHandler InputButtonPressed;

public delegate string ButtonPressedHandler(string Value);

i am trying to capture that string
how can i do this?

i am basically trying to pass a variable from one form to another when OK
button is pressed

[Bruce Wood]

First of all, there are two strings there: one is called Value, and the
other is the return value of the delegate method. I'm not sure what the
latter does.

I'm assuming that these two forms are independent. That is, that the
form that needs the value when the OK button is pressed has not
displayed the other form using ShowDialog(). If form1 displays form2
using ShowDialog() like this, then the answer is easy: form2 should
expose a property called WhateverString (or whatever :-), and form1
should query it before disposing of form2:

string resultString = "";
Form2Type form2 = new Form2Type();
if (form2.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
{
resultString = form2.WhateverString;
}
form2.Dispose();

However, if the two forms are unrelated (form2 is started using Show(),
not ShowDialog()), then the solution is, as you suggested to use an
event. However, I wouldn't use a specific "button pressed" event as
you're suggesting. That strikes me as too much in the "language" of the
insides of form2. What you really want, I think, it to say, "When the
user indicates that he's done with form2, signal form1, so maybe an
event called "Result" would be more appropriate:

public class Form2ResultArgs
{
... just fields, a constructor, and properties to get values out...
}

public delegate void Form2ResultHandler(object sender, Form2ResultArgs
args);

Now, in form2, declare:

public event Form2ResultHandler Result;

and

private void OKbutton_Clicked(object sender, System.EventArgs args)
{
Form2ResultArgs args = new Form2ResultArgs(...the results...);
if (this.Result != null)
{
this.Result(this, args);
}
this.DialogResult = DialogResult.OK;
}

And, in form1 (assuming that you can get your hands on an instance of
Form2... use the Singleton pattern in Form2 if there should only ever
be one):

public Form1()
{
... designer stuff...
... get hands on instance of form2 ...
form2.Result += new Form2ResultHandler(HandleForm2Result);
}

and

private void HandleForm2Result(object sender, Form2ResultArgs args)
{
string resultString = args.ResultString; // or whatever
}

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Raj Chudasama <raj@asteriasgi_spamkiller.com> wrote:

i have the following
public event ButtonPressedHandler InputButtonPressed;

public delegate string ButtonPressedHandler(string Value);

i am trying to capture that string
how can i do this?

i am basically trying to pass a variable from one form to another when OK
button is pressed

Where are you trying to capture it? Anything that calls the handler can
just do:

string x = InputButtonPressed();

But that relies on the place you call the handler being the place you
want to get the string...

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[Jianwei Sun]

1>Declare the delegate in the form (Form1) you want to pass the variable.
2>Register the event in the form(Form2) you want to handle the event.

Something like this in Form2:

this.form1.InputButtonPressed+=new ButtonPressedHandler(
EventHanlderFunction)
Then in Form2, you can receive the value in the function

private string EventHanlderFunction(string value)
{
}

There are plenty of resources on the Internet about this topic, play
with a couple of examples, you'll know it.

Raj Chudasama wrote:

i have the following
public event ButtonPressedHandler InputButtonPressed;

public delegate string ButtonPressedHandler(string Value);

i am trying to capture that string
how can i do this?

i am basically trying to pass a variable from one form to another when OK
button is pressed