Child usercontrol?

[Kate Giacomozzi]

Okay.... so I have the feeling that this is not as difficult as I think it is but I can not seem to figure it out. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

I have button on form3 that once clicked shows a new usercontrol on form1. However, the usercontrol has a number of buttons that I would like to be child forms of form1 (Form4 newMDIChild = new Form4(); newMDIChild.MdiParent = this.MdiParent;
newMDIChild.Show(); does not work). Unfortunatley, I cannot seem to figure out how to make the usercontrol a child or to let the usercontrol know who the child forms parent is.

This is what I have so far.

Thanks in advance!!!!!



Button Form

  public partial class Form3 : Form
    {
 
        public Form3()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }
 
            protected void Show (Control control)
        {
         Form1 form = (Form1)Application.OpenForms["Form1"];
            form.Controls.Add(control);
            form.Show();
 
 
        }
        private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
 
            UserControl1 userControl = new UserControl1();
            Form3 form = new Form3();
            form.Show(userControl);
}
}
}

[arie]

Method Form.Show(owner) sets "A Form that represents the form that is the owner of this form." (according to MSDN)

If you want for your usercontrol to "own" the form, try setting Form.Parent property.

Or, in your Form3 class, you can add your own property that you will set when creating the form:

public partial class Form3 : Form
{
 public Control OwnerControl{get;set;}
 public Form3()
 {
    InitializeComponent();
 }
 public Form3(Control c)
 {
    InitializeComponent();
    OwnerControl = c;
 }
 
//.....
private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
   UserControl1 userControl = new UserControl1();
   Form3 form = new Form3(userControl);
   form.Show();
}
}

(this code is not compiled or tested, it's only an idea)

[Kate Giacomozzi]

Thanks for the help but I was hoping to make Form1 own the usercontrol but I will definatley use this in the future for other things! Thank you! : )