Sharing references/members

14 Apr 2005 6:46 PM

Tom S.

..Net 2003 V- 7.1.3088
Framework 1.1 V- 1.1.4322 SP1
WinXp SP2

I'm building a WinForms project and I have 3 levels of
forms( the MDI Form, a MDI child form, and a modal form
called from the MDI child form ). I have a member
declared in the MDI Form that I need to be able to
manipulate from within the other two forms and I'm not
sure of the best way to go about this ( I'm used to
ASP.net, where I would simply put this in the Session
object and call it from each page ). Can anyone point me
in the right direction here? Thanks!!!

Tom S.

15 Apr 2005 3:56 AM

Adam Goossens

Tom,

Create a new property for your MDI form that exposes the object you require.

Then, from the child form:

----
Me.MdiParent.YourProperty.SomeMethod()
----

For the modal form to access the property you need to pass a reference
to the MDI parent somehow. I personally suggest passing the reference as
an argument to the modal form's constructor.

Regards,
-Adam.

Tom S. wrote:
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> .Net 2003 V- 7.1.3088
> Framework 1.1 V- 1.1.4322 SP1
> WinXp SP2
>
> I'm building a WinForms project and I have 3 levels of
> forms( the MDI Form, a MDI child form, and a modal form
> called from the MDI child form ). I have a member
> declared in the MDI Form that I need to be able to
> manipulate from within the other two forms and I'm not
> sure of the best way to go about this ( I'm used to
> ASP.net, where I would simply put this in the Session
> object and call it from each page ). Can anyone point me
> in the right direction here? Thanks!!!
>
> Tom S.

15 Apr 2005 3:42 PM

anonymous

That works perfectly, Thanks!!!!!

>-----Original Message-----
>Tom,
>
>Create a new property for your MDI form that exposes the

object you require.

>
>Then, from the child form:
>
>----
>Me.MdiParent.YourProperty.SomeMethod()
>----
>
>For the modal form to access the property you need to

pass a reference

>to the MDI parent somehow. I personally suggest passing

the reference as
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>an argument to the modal form's constructor.
>
>Regards,
>-Adam.
>
>Tom S. wrote:
>> .Net 2003 V- 7.1.3088
>> Framework 1.1 V- 1.1.4322 SP1
>> WinXp SP2
>>
>> I'm building a WinForms project and I have 3 levels of
>> forms( the MDI Form, a MDI child form, and a modal form
>> called from the MDI child form ). I have a member
>> declared in the MDI Form that I need to be able to
>> manipulate from within the other two forms and I'm not
>> sure of the best way to go about this ( I'm used to
>> ASP.net, where I would simply put this in the Session
>> object and call it from each page ). Can anyone point
me
>> in the right direction here? Thanks!!!
>>
>> Tom S.
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>