call a procedure of a form from the toolbox

i want to use the same buttons (help, save, delete, ...) in the whole mdi-application. Depending on the form which is loaded the buttons have different functions.

Private Sub ToolBar1_ButtonClick(...) Handles ToolBar1.ButtonClick
Dim f As New Form2()

f.F1()
End Sub

F1 is a procedure of Form2... the question is: how can i call the procedure F1 of the Form which is currently loaded?

Dim f As New ???

thank you

Not exactly following you, but the MDI does have a property called ActiveForm, which returna an object rererence to the form that has focus.

thanks for your answer...

but the problem is that there are always more than one form loaded and so it is possible that the active-form of the mdi-form is not the form which contains the procedure.

i haven't testet but maybe this works:

Public Class myForm
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form

Public Overridable Sub mysavebuttonclick()

End Sub
' for each button of the toolbar a overridable sub or function
End Class

Public module myForms
Public activeForm as myForm
end module

in every form replace
inherits windows.forms.form
with
inherits myForm

and

Protected Overrides Sub OnLoad(...)
myForms.activeForm = me
End Sub

the buttonclickevent calls
myForms.activeForm.mySaveButtonClick


maybe the problem can also be solved with delegates...