How to change protection level of menustrip so I can code in other form where menustrip isn't it

Question

EDIT: If I change in Home Form private to public void then I must do a kinda concvert to bool from void... but I don't know how that works. Can you help me guys?

I am stuck here in the code.... I wanted to know how to access to my other form which has menustrip from another form.

E.G:

I want that clicking on the menustrip from other form where menustrip doesn't exists.

Here is the code:

Form 1

Home frm = new Home();
frm.IsMdiContainer = true;
if(frm.Controls["todasEntradasToolStripMenuItem"].Click += frm.todasEntradasToolStripMenuItem_Click)
       {
            {something}
       }

The form Home is "frm" variable and it is where it has the menu strip. I want help to change the protection level so that this form (Form1) can accept this code... Anyone can help me please?

Answer 1

Solution 1 (nice): Add your Click event in some Init-method or the constructor in Home. There you can access your control.

todasEntradasToolStripMenuItem.Click += todasEntradasToolStripMenuItem_Click;

Also in Home you define a new event:

    public event EventHandler<EventArgs> TodasEntradasToolStripMenuItemClick;

    private void OnTodasEntradasToolStripMenuItemClick(EventArgs e)
    {
        if (todasEntradasToolStripMenuItem != null)
        {
            TodasEntradasToolStripMenuItemClick(this, e);
        }
    }

In the Click handler you raise your own public event:

    private void todasEntradasToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
    {
        OnTodasEntradasToolStripMenuItemClick(e);
    }

In Form1 you add your Handler to this public event:

        Home frm = new Home();
        frm.TodasEntradasToolStripMenuItemClick += frm_TodasEntradasToolStripMenuItemClick;

In this handler you can "do something":

    private void frm_TodasEntradasToolStripMenuItemClick(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        // Do something
    }

Solution 2 (do not do it): You asked for changing the protection level. So you can change

private todasEntradasToolStripMenuItem

in Home to

internal todasEntradasToolStripMenuItem

or even

public todasEntradasToolStripMenuItem

But I do not suggest you not to do this. You should choose Solution 1. With Solution 2 you would open Home for more changes than you have to.