"Andrew" <Andrew@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello, friends,
>
> In Windows Form applicaitons, it is often that a form window may need to
> interact with other form windows. For example, clicking on a command
> button
> in one form may bring another form to foreground and display text/image
> accordingly. Do we normally keep global refrences somewhere for each
> opened
> form windows, so that it is possible for opened windows to interact with
> each
> other? For example:
>
> public static formCollection
> {
> public static frmWindow1 frm1;
> public static frmWindow2 frm2;
> public static frmWindow3 frm3;
> }
>
> Or, do we want each window form only to keep references to the opened
> forms
> it may need individually?
>
> What is the best approach for this? Any reference papers? Thanks a lot.

"Andrew" <Andrew@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks, Kevin.
>
> If that is the case, I need to declare each opened form at Main form
> scope,
> not in its method scope, right?
>
> I saw sample source code like the follows, and once this form is
> instantiated, it can no longer be referenced:
>
> private void mainToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs
> e)
> {
> Cursor = Cursors.WaitCursor;
>
> frmWindow1 frm1= new frmWindow1 ();
>
> frm1.Show();
>
> Cursor = Cursors.Default;
> }
>
> )
>
> Do you know any links to good reference papers on this? Thanks.
>
>
> "Kevin Spencer" wrote:
>
>> In a Windows Forms application, there is one form that is the main form
>> of
>> the thread. Other forms are launched from this one. So, you need to
>> declare
>> the other forms in the main form, but do NOT make them static. Then you
>> can
>> reference the other forms and their data from the main form.
>>
>> --
>> HTH,
>>
>> Kevin Spencer
>> Microsoft MVP
>>
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>> Networking Components, Controls, much more.
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>> http://www.miradyne.net
>>
>