Cross Form Method Access
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I am wondering what the best approach is to consume a method that occurs when a button is clicked on a separate form. The situation is that form1 has an add record button that shows form2. after form2 is filled out/submitted, I need to fire the clear event (triggered by a button on form1), to clear out form 1. I would like to keep the button_click method private as well. TIA Nathan Lindley .NET Aficionado
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I am wondering what the best approach is to consume a method that occurs when a button is clicked on a separate form. The situation is that form1 has an add record button that shows form2. after form2 is filled out/submitted, I need to fire the clear event (triggered by a button on form1), to clear out form 1. I would like to keep the button_click method private as well. TIA Nathan Lindley .NET Aficionado
A delegate is what you need here.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog
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A delegate is what you need here.
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ Metal Musings - Rex and my new metal blog
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I was thinking something along those lines, thanks for the input, i'll proceed in that direction. Nathan Lindley .NET Aficionado
Another way to do this would be to implement an MVP or similar (MVC, Passive Screen, Supervising Controller etc.) pattern. That way you could raise the event from the view, into the associated presenter, which can Notify through a model to anywhere in the application that uses that model. Making the event not dependant on the form. Of course, this might not be viable. It's something to think about though... Take a look here[^] for more info on the patterns