Activate mdiChildren sub from mdiParent

[carmelo.orlando]

Hi to all,
Im a new user of this group. I have a mdiParent form with a toolbar
that contains some buttons. One of this button have to activate the
function "click" of a button located into the mdi child form. How can i
do?
Thanks to all,
Kamme

[Jay Taplin]

"ca*************@eurotel.it" wrote:

Hi to all,
Im a new user of this group. I have a mdiParent form with a toolbar
that contains some buttons. One of this button have to activate the
function "click" of a button located into the mdi child form. How can i
do?
Thanks to all,
Kamme

[Jay Taplin]

Sorry, hit post accidentally...

Kamme -

By nature, your "click" events are private to the form you are working with,
so they can't be "seen" by outside classes or modules. While you could just
change the scope of the method for the event to Public and then call to
ChildFormName.Button1_Click, I don't personally like that method. As you
didn't state which version of VB you are using, I'll write this for the
lowest common programming denominator:

The steps to make this work are:

1) Create a Public Sub to handle your button click on the child form.
2) Move your code from the button's _Click event to the Public Sub in
step 1.
3) Call the Public Sub from step 1 in your button's _Click event.
4) Call the Public Sub in step 1 from the MDI Parent.

In your child form button _Click event, take all the code out and place it
into a Public Sub as such:

Public Sub HandleButtonClick()
'Put your button click code here
End Sub

In your button's _Click event, call the "HandleButtonClick" code:

Private Sub Button1_Click()
HandleButtonClick
End Sub

In your MDI Parent, call the "HandleButtonClick" code by referencing your
child form:

ChildFormName.HandleButtonClick

This should work for you. The parameters for your event may be different
depending on what language your using, such as:

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

I hope this helps!

- Jay