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Opening mdi child from Browse Dialog

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Mike Tomlin	Mike Tomlin posted 12 Years Ago Topic Details Share Topic
Group: StrataFrame Users Posts: 23, Visits: 5.8K	Hi 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
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Ivan George Borges	Ivan George Borges posted 12 Years Ago Post Details Share Post
Group: StrataFrame MVPs Posts: 1.9K, Visits: 21K	Have you tried passing your BD as a parameter to your newly created form and then trying to close it from there once shown?
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Mike Tomlin	Mike Tomlin posted 12 Years Ago Post Details Share Post
Group: StrataFrame Users Posts: 23, Visits: 5.8K	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
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Ivan George Borges	Ivan George Borges posted 12 Years Ago Post Details Share Post
Group: StrataFrame MVPs Posts: 1.9K, Visits: 21K	Would you be able to open it just as a normal dialog? Something like: '-- Instanciate the new form Dim MyChildForm1 As New MyChildForm '-- show it as a Dialog MyChildForm1.ShowDialog()
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