accessing objects of mdichild from parent form.

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Harley

Hello,
I can't seem to figure out how or find any info on
accessing/manipulating objects in a child form from the parent or vise
versa.
Up to this point in my program I have been useing modules as a
mediator and passing the data i need through them.
e.g. to get the textbox.text from my child form I have been useing the
textChanged event to store the text from the textbox in a variable
contained in a module then getting it from that module when a function
of my parent form needs it.
However that is very limiting and doesn't allow me to control the
behavior of the forms themselves. For e.g. I want to have a menu item
change dependent on certain properties of my active child form.

I realize how "newb" this question is but please understand I'm not
asking to be breastfead or for anyone to write anything for me, but to
just please point me to some good info on this. I'm sure its out there
I just can't seem to find it.

There is SO MUCH vb stuff out there that its hard to narrow a search
enough to get what you want.

Thanks in advance for any help offered.
 
* (e-mail address removed) (Harley) scripsit:
I can't seem to figure out how or find any info on
accessing/manipulating objects in a child form from the parent or vise
versa.
Up to this point in my program I have been useing modules as a
mediator and passing the data i need through them.
e.g. to get the textbox.text from my child form I have been useing the
textChanged event to store the text from the textbox in a variable
contained in a module then getting it from that module when a function
of my parent form needs it.
However that is very limiting and doesn't allow me to control the
behavior of the forms themselves. For e.g. I want to have a menu item
change dependent on certain properties of my active child form.
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Parent -> Child:

\\\
DirectCast(Me.MdiChildren(2), ChildForm).TheProperty = TheValue
///

Child -> Parent:

\\\
DirectCast(Me.MdiParent, MainForm).TheProperty = TheValue
///
 
Thank you,
Couldn't have been more direct and helpfull than that :)
It also couldn't have been more simple than that. I feal dopie.
 
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