want to make two winforms active at same time.

prathaban durai

Hi all,

i aw working in winforms c#. for reporting we use crystal reports

The snapshot what you see is the crystal report. From crystal report we export to pdf or any. As soon as i click the print icon on the left side a new pop up to export to pdf opened

When this pop up is opened i just want to make selection in the form back of it(check or uncheck the two check boxes).Depending on the two check boxes i need to generate as both excel and pdf. how to make the form active when print dialog is opened.please anyone help.

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Vulpes12y ago
Accepted answer
If it's the standard SaveFileDialog you're using, then there's no way you can change the focus to another form whilst the dialog is open.

You can't even change this behavior by sub-classing it as the SaveFileDialog class is sealed.

However, if it's not the standard SaveFileDialog but a customized one, then you should be able to change the focus to another form as long as you open the dialog using the Show() rather than the ShowDialog() method.
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Vulpes12y ago
You'd have to create an ordinary form which looked and worked like the SaveFileDialog but exposed both Show() and ShowDialog() methods so you could open it modelessly or modally as required.

I had a quick google to see if anyone had done something like this before but couldn't find anything.

It would clearly be a lot of work to do this from scratch and I think I'd look for an alternative solution such as making sure these checkboxes are dealt with before opening the SaveFileDialog and setting the latter's properties accordingly.
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prathaban durai12y ago
How to create a customized save as dialog box??
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