toolbar save button

[carlblanchard]

Hey all,

How would you make the toolbar button "save" run a db insert, update, delete etc command on any child mdi form ?


cheers all

[Crunch]

for example...

Private Sub tbarMain_ButtonClick(ByVal sender As System.Object, _
    ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.ToolBarButtonClickEventArgs) _
    Handles tbarMain.ButtonClick
        Select Case tbarMain.Buttons.IndexOf(e.Button)
            Case 0
                'New character
                DoFileNew()
 
            Case 1
                'Open character
                DoFileOpen()
 
            Case 2
                'Save Character
                DoFileSave()
 
            Case 4
                'Print
                BuildAllPrintRichTexts()
                DoPrintAll()
            Case 6
                'Select Genre
                DoSelectGenre()
 
            Case 7
                'Options
                DoProgramOptions()
 
            Case 8
                'Show Background
                DoShowBackground()
 
            Case 10
                'Show Bonuses
                DoShowBonuses()
 
            Case 12
                'View All in a selection listview
                mnuViewAll.Checked = True
                mnuViewSelected.Checked = False
                DoListViewViewAll()
 
            Case 13
                'View Selected in a selection listview
                mnuViewAll.Checked = False
                mnuViewSelected.Checked = True
                DoListViewViewSelected()
 
            Case 15
                'Show Spell Counters
                DoShowCounters()
 
        End Select

[carlblanchard]

OK that handles the clicks, already can do that but what i mean is OK my toolbar has a button SAVE with image of disk on it,
handle the click action and call a function called "DoSave()" ok so this is the problem i have about 10 forms with data being inputted and on each form is a text button saying SAVE if you click the text button it saves the data but i want my users to be able to click a save button on the toolbar and it will save the data on any page that is the active child


cheers Carl

[Crunch]

Well then, write code to do so. Are you using an MDI form or multiple instances of the same form or what? If you are using MDI and want to determine the currently active child window:
ms-help://MS.VSCC.2003/MS.MSDNQTR.2003FEB.1033/vbcon/html/vbtskdeterminingactivemdichild.htm
(if you have a different version of help just paste in from /vbcon forward in front of any help page) (wish MS hadn't changed the format of help urls...)

[carlblanchard]

yes i am using mdi forms and ive manage yo sort it coding is complicated so wont go into detail

[Crunch]

uh... so are you fixed up or what?

[carlblanchard]

yes kinda just having troble accessing child forms