closing child form in MDI parent form

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hello,

i have a MDI parent form and inside that i have menu bar for opening child forms.
when i open a child form it opens inside MDI parent form.
and when i open second child form the previous one is not closing.

the opened child form should be closed when i open new child form.....

how can i achieve this...

please help......

Posted 11-Aug-11 0:22am

yogesh89

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StM0n 11-Aug-11 6:31am

so... only one (specific?) child is allowed to be shown? Do I get that right...?

yogesh89 16-Aug-11 6:15am

yes you are right.....

StM0n 16-Aug-11 6:51am

Ok... my guess would be, that you have (hopefully) plenty solutions to choose from :)

nagendrathecoder 11-Aug-11 7:14am

Please mention do you want only one instance of a particulat child form open or you want only and only one instance of any of the child form open at a time.

4 solutions

Solution 1

When opening a form use from1.ShowDialog() instead of form1.Show(). So, this will not allow you to open other without closing the current from.

Posted 11-Aug-11 0:30am

Toniyo Jackson

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Pravin Patil, Mumbai 11-Aug-11 6:42am

But it will also prevent clicking on the menu bar or toolbar as long as current form is open.....

Toniyo Jackson 11-Aug-11 6:44am

Yup. This is what OP needs

Solution 3

i guess you wanted that only one instance of a particular child form should be open at a time.
For this, you need to check if the instance of that child form is null then only open new instance OR otherwise if instance is already created just bring to front that instance.

Posted 11-Aug-11 1:12am

nagendrathecoder

Solution 4

C#

private WhatEverClassThisMayBe _TheOneAndOnlyChild;

public|private void showChild() {

    if (this._TheOneAndOnlyChild != null) {
        this._TheOneAndOnlyChild.Close();
    }

    this._TheOneAndOnlyChild = new WhatEverClassThisMayBe();

    this._TheOneAndOnlyChild.Show();

}

Something like that, would be my guess...

Posted 11-Aug-11 2:54am

StM0n

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nagendrathecoder 11-Aug-11 9:00am

If OP really wants this.....i can't imagine why he needs something like this.
Anyhow it is good answer

StM0n 11-Aug-11 9:04am

Thanks for the reply... and honestly, I either didn't figure it out, what the OP's trying to achieve... ;)

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Suresh Suthar · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-11T00:31:00

Solution 2

You have to write code for that.

Check whether MDI has child form or not using this.HasChildren and close that instance of form using childForm.Close().

Posted 11-Aug-11 0:31am

Suresh Suthar

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Pravin Patil, Mumbai 11-Aug-11 6:41am

Very nice answer....
my 5

RaviRanjanKr 11-Aug-11 9:04am

Nice Answer, My 5+