Hi Bernard,

Off the top of my head, I would think about adding a public boolean property (you could even call it DoDefault if you'd like to <g>), set it to true, then have your PreClick EventHandler set it to false if you need to.

~~Bonnie


>Hi Bonnie
>
>Many thanks for the help, it's certainly helped me a great deal, and it's good to fnid somebody who can relate how we used to do things in foxpro and relate them to .net.
>
>Using your suggestions I've managed to implement a pre and post click type method on my command button class.
>
>However, I've got a problem attempting to abstract the default click code out of parent class. eg ;
>
>Here's my parent command button class :
>
>

>Public Class BaseCommandButton
>    Inherits System.Windows.Forms.UserControl
>    Public Event PreClick As EventHandler
>    Public Event PostClick As EventHandler
>
>    Private Sub BaseButton_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles BaseButton.Click
>        RaiseEvent PreClick(sender, e)
>
>        '------------------default code goes here---------------------
>        MsgBox("parent click at class level")
>        '------------------default code goes here---------------------
>
>        RaiseEvent PostClick(sender, e)
>    End Sub
>End Class
>

>
>As you can see I'm raising events both before and after the click takes place so that I can perform code at a subclass level before and after the click takes place.
>
>So, when I drop this commandbutton on my form , I can do the following to provide hooks to the pre and post click methods.
>
>

>Public Class SubClassedForm
>    Inherits BaseClasses.BaseForm
>
>    Public Sub MyPreClickCode(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles BaseCommandButton1.PreClick
>        MsgBox("Preclick")
>    End Sub
>
>    Public Sub MyPostClickCode(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles BaseCommandButton1.PostClick
>        MsgBox("PostClick")
>    End Sub
>
>End Class
>

>
>This works great, but what I'm trying to achieve is to prevent this default parent code
>
>

>        '------------------default code goes here---------------------
>        MsgBox("parent click at class level")
>        '------------------default code goes here---------------------
>

>
>from running if necessary, or maybe override it. For example something happens in my preclick method and I then decide to abort the action etc.
>
>I can create another event at the parent class level and raise this event in the parents click method , but I'm having difficultly placing the default code some place in the parent class.
>
>I'd be really grateful if you could keep my .NET learing curve moving!
>
>All the best, Bernard....