How to give the focus back to the caller form?

[sapnabn]

Hi, I have a smal problem, but needs immediate resolution. I have an MDI application through which i opens a form; say "Form1". From "Form1" I am calling another form; say "Form2". Now, when clicking a button in "Form2", I need the focus to be given back to the original "Form1".ie, I need "Form1" to be activated. Somebody please help me in doing this..... Thanks Sapna:)

[codes w]

In form2, u put the following code within the button click event Response.Redirect("form1 with extension"); Try it

[Al Gardner]

codes/w wrote: Response.Redirect("form1 with extension"); Which I am sure this works for a web application, but for a System.Windows.Forms application, try void Form2_button1_click(object sender, eventargs e) { Form1.Focus(); } Be aware that if you have opened the Dialog modally (i.e. from form1 you called form2.ShowDialog()) then the focus will stay in Form2.

[codes w]

Ooh, thanks alot

[Stanciu Vlad]

I have a very simple and easy to use solution for you simply pass the parent form as a parameter in the constructor of the second one (I think that any window (especialy MDI) has a parent property thow) and when you desire call myParentForm.Activate(); (or more professional (but recomandede in a try\catch) this.Parent.Activate(); I hope you understand... By the way... visit http://nehe.gamedev.net[^]

[Stanciu Vlad]

call the forms parent activate procedure this.Parent.Activate() or give the second form an argument (the main form) class Form2 { Form1 myParentForm; ... Form2 (Form1 parent) { ... myParentForm = parent; ... } ... this.myParentForm.Activate(); ... } I hope you understand... By the way... visit http://nehe.gamedev.net[^]