True. But should work for his custom preclick event. Just harvest the status of the Cancel property after the preclick event is raised.
>Dave,
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>The standard .net way of doing this is to use the CancelEventArgs class instead of the regular EventArgs class.>
>Yeah, all well and good for a Closing Event on a form, but I don't think that the Button Click event handles either a CancelEventHandler or CancelEventArgs. Unless I missed something when I tried it.
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>~~Bonnie
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>>It adds an additional Cancel property that your base class could process and cancel furthur processing of the event.
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>>See
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlrfsystemcomponentmodelcanceleventargsclasstopic.asp>>
>>>
>>>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.