celtic

Hi all.

I'm wondering how to go about accessing the value of variables in an MDI parent form from a child form.

I can for example, access the text propery of a text box on the parent from the child just by specifying the parent's form name, but not the value of a variable even though it is declared public.

The specific variable is an instance of a class, and the members of the class are unavailable from the child even though the class is instantiated in a publc variable in the parent.

AtmaWeapon

The property that gets you the parent returns a value of type Form, but you know it's a more specific type. When this happens, you have to cast. For example, say your parent form is called "BigForm". Also let's assume the property is MdiParent because I can't remember what it is. You'd write something like this:
Also, assume "PropertyName" is the name of the property you wanted to access.

celtic

Ah. OK.
Thank you AtmaWeapon!