acess a control in a MDI parrent form from a MDI child form

[authorking]

If there's a control in a MDI parrent form , how can I make it accessable in
a MDI child form?
Is there any sample code?

[Sam Martin]

use this.MdiParent to reference the parent MDI form.

from there you can use the Controls collection or methods such as
GetChildAtPoint().

Or you could cast it to the type of your parent form, i.e.

MyMdiForm myform = (MyMdiForm)this.MdiParent;

then you can access any public property/method of your mdi parent.

HTH
Sam

"authorking" <au************@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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If there's a control in a MDI parrent form , how can I make it accessable
in a MDI child form?
Is there any sample code?

[Sam Martin]

use this.MdiParent to reference the parent MDI form.

from there you can use the Controls collection or methods such as
GetChildAtPoint().

Or you could cast it to the type of your parent form, i.e.

MyMdiForm myform = (MyMdiForm)this.MdiParent;

then you can access any public property/method of your mdi parent.

HTH
Sam

"authorking" <au************@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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If there's a control in a MDI parrent form , how can I make it accessable
in a MDI child form?
Is there any sample code?