Which button was clicked to open form

I have a form that loads from a click of any of three buttons (Add, Modify or Delete). When the form loads there is a 'Confirm' button which will perform a task depending on which button was originally used to show the form.

Is there an easy way to determine which button was originally clicked so that the right code can be executed?

Thanks

Solution

Well suppose to define at the global level an enum like this

Public Enum CommandAction
    Create
    Modify 
    Delete
End Enum

Now in the code used to launch your second form to execute the Add command, you could write code like this (of course you repeat the same but varying the CommandAction in the other buttons).

Dim myFormInstance = new MyForm(CommandAction.Create)
myFormInstance.ShowDialog()

Finally, add a specfic constructor for your second form (MyForm in this example). A constructor that receives and saves for future usage a CommandAction

Public Class MyForm
    Dim cmd as CommandAction

    Public Sub New(command as CommandAction )
         InitializeComponent()
         cmd = command
    End Sub
    Public Sub New()
         InitializeComponent()
         cmd = CommandAction.Create ' Set a default'
    End Sub
End Class

Now in the code where you need to decide which kind of action to execute, just look at the value of the global cmd variable and execute the appropriate block of code

NOTE Adding a specific constructor to a form class requires the explicit presence of the standard empty constructor.