Hello,

I have a project with multiple child forms (created from DLLs). When a
button in the child form is clicked the Parent form needs to know what
button was clicked. Any Suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Chuck

Charles,

Never did this, however I think I would create a property in every mdi child
form form that I would fill when there was a button clicked in the events
something as this. Roughly typed, not tested just a gues.
\\\
Private lButton As Button
Public ReadOnly Property Lastbutton() As Button
Get
Return lButton
End Get
End Property
Button Click event
lButton = sender
end sub
///
That can be seen in the parent with mymdiform.Lastbutton.name

I hope this helps?

Cor

* "Charles A. Lackman" <(E-Mail Removed)> scripsit:
> I have a project with multiple child forms (created from DLLs). When a
> button in the child form is clicked the Parent form needs to know what
> button was clicked. Any Suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Define an event in your child form and add a handler to this event in
the main form. Then you can pass the reference to the control that
raises the event in the 'sender' parameter of your event.

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M S Herfried K. Wagner
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I Agree. Do a web search for "Observer Pattern"

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> * "Charles A. Lackman" <(E-Mail Removed)> scripsit:
> > I have a project with multiple child forms (created from DLLs). When a
> > button in the child form is clicked the Parent form needs to know what
> > button was clicked. Any Suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Define an event in your child form and add a handler to this event in
> the main form. Then you can pass the reference to the control that
> raises the event in the 'sender' parameter of your event.
>
> --
> M S Herfried K. Wagner
> M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
> V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>