Dave,

Yep, ok ... I see what you were getting at now. Good idea. =)

~~Bonnie



>This works:
>
>

>public event CancelEventHandler PreClick;
>...
>private void button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
>{
>	CancelEventArgs ce = new CancelEventArgs(true);
>	if (PreClick != null)
>	{
>		PreClick(this, ce);
>	}
>	if (ce.Cancel == false)
>	{
>		MessageBox.Show("Parent Code");
>		if (PostClick != null)
>		{
>			PostClick(this, new EventArgs());
>		}
>	}
>}
>

>
>Then on the form
>

>private void mybutton1_PreClick(object sender, CancelEventArgs e)
>{
>	e.Cancel = this.checkBox1.Checked;
>}
>

>
>
>
>>Dave,
>>
>>>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.
>>
>>~~Bonnie
>>
>>>
>>>It adds an additional Cancel property that your base class could process and cancel furthur processing of the event.
>>>
>>>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.