Enabling and disablling of a form

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Hi
First of thanks to all of you for providing me help on my previous two question.

But now have another problem.
Here it is ;

I am making project in c# and wants to make one form disable on linklabel click event and open another form at the same time .
Once the work of second form is over and i closes that form on button click and i want previous form to become enable again.

Or

In short i want to make a popup window which disables entire screen except that particular window and when work is over and i closes that window screen gets activated.

Thanks
Sangaur

Posted 15-Aug-11 9:34am

sangaur

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u can use these two routines :-

1. form1.Hide();
2. form2.Show();

Posted 15-Aug-11 14:55pm

Harmanjeet Singh

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#realJSOP · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-15T09:41:00

Well, disabling the entire desktop is just plain bad manners. The act of opening up another form in essence prevents the user from doing anything in previous forms of a given application until the current form is closed. There's no need for extra processing to do what you want to do.

You *could* however HIDE the first form, and then re-show it when the other form is dismissed, something like this:

C#

private void button_Click(...)
{
    Form2 form2 = new Form2();
    form2.Closed += new EventArgs(form2_Closed);
    this.Visible = false;
    form2.ShowDialog();
}

private void form2_Closed(...)
{
    this.Visible = true;
}

Herman<T>.Instance · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-15T09:39:00

Solution 1

use the Form2.ShowDialog() method.
For more information see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa984358(v=vs.71).aspx[^]

Posted 15-Aug-11 9:39am

Herman<T>.Instance

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Dr.Walt Fair, PE 15-Aug-11 18:47pm

Yes, the dialog will affect only the active application and I can say from experience that disabling the entire desktop is just asking for problems!

sangaur 16-Aug-11 1:09am

thank you i appreciate ur help and it really worked as per requirement.

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