.NET snippets and books: 09/26/2004

How to fire a click event from another form (Sunday, September 26, 2004)

Found the following interesting discussion in the Newsgroups:

fire a click event from another form by:Anonymous
Hello, I have two forms - a start form running in the background and a content form in the foreground. When a timer fires on the start form, I need to fire the click event for a button on the other form. I have delcalered the 2nd form as a friend, but still cannot get to the button's click event. Any help would be very appreciated - thnx
	Reply: by:Anonymous
	Hi, If you are using the Mdiform use the following statements. and note that you need to declare the procedure which is handling the event Click of the button as public. Dim f2 As Form2 = CType(Me.MdiParent.MdiChildren(1), Form2) f2.Button1_Click(f2.Button1, New System.EventArgs()) where button1 is the button placed in the form2. Actually here you are not raising the event, we are indirectly tiggering the event by calling a procedure. If you don't have a MDI form. Have some public module and keep the instance of form2 there and access it in form2 or keep the instance in the form1 itself and access it. I hope this may help you. Sadha Sivam S Malleable Minds Software Pvt Ltd., India
	Reply: by:Jens Blom
	Hi try this ------------------------------ Dim foo As New Form2 Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load foo.Show() End Sub Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click 'call the button on form 2 foo.ButtonOnForm2.PerformClick() 'call a sub on from2 foo.subOnForm2() End Sub ----------------------------------- /jens

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