Accessing form's text box from Module

  • Thread starter Thread starter Elmo Watson
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Elmo Watson

I have come from a VB6 background, and I'm trying to convert an MDI app that
has many subs in modules which directly access
a textbox in a child form of the main MDI form (frmMain as MDI form, frmEdit
as child form, txtEdit as richtextbox)
code:
With frmMain.ActiveMdiChild.txtEdit

I totally understand OO concepts now, which I didn't (completely) when the
app was originally written, but I really don't want to re-write every single
sub and make it a function, to output text - that would make me want to
shoot the computer.
I guess, the other option would be to put all this stuff in the MDI form or
MDI child, however, that would really bloat those forms....(IMHO)

Is there a way to reference the textbox on the child form, directly inside a
module, with VB.Net (2005)?
 
You mean like?:

Module xyz

Public Sub UpdateRichTextBox()

CType(CType(Application.OpenForms("frmMain"), frmMain).ActiveMdiChild,
frmEdit).txtEdit.Text = "The quick brown fox ..."

End Sub

End Module
 
Absolutely great! I've been looking for this for so long

I just dimmed that all as a RichTextBox at the head of the Module and
everything went perfectly

Thanks! - You're a life saver
 
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