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Opening mdi child from Browse Dialog

Mike Tomlin — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:48:28 GMT

From an MDI child form I run a browse dialog from a button click. When the user runs the search the custom information panel of the browse dialog shows a list of related items in a StratListView each one having a link.

What I want to do is click on the link, close the browse and open a new MDI child form showing details relating to that link. As the browse dialog opens as modal I'm struggling to reference the MDI parent properly (relative beginner in C#).

If I was opening a new child mdi from an existing child mdi then something like

MainForm loForm;
loForm = (MainForm)this.ParentForm;
loForm.LaunchDialog(typeof(MyNewDialog));

ought to work.

What do I need to do to get it to work when running from the info panel of a browse dialog?

Many thanks

Mike

RE: Opening mdi child from Browse Dialog

Ivan George Borges — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:48:28 GMT

Would you be able to open it just as a normal dialog? Something like:

[codesnippet]        '-- Instanciate the new form
        Dim MyChildForm1 As New MyChildForm

        '-- show it as a Dialog
        MyChildForm1.ShowDialog()
[/codesnippet]

RE: Opening mdi child from Browse Dialog

Mike Tomlin — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:06:48 GMT

Hi Ivan

I hadn't got that far yet. What I am stuck on is how to reference the mdi parent form so I can open a new mdi child form from the browse dialog which is outside the mdi structure - i.e it doesn't have a mdi parent? Have I explained it better :)

RE: Opening mdi child from Browse Dialog

Ivan George Borges — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:17:51 GMT

Have you tried passing your BD as a parameter to your newly created form and then trying to close it from there once shown?