How to access menu in parent form in MDI app?

[Uncle_Albert]

Hi there,

Trying to get to grips with MDI applications at the mo and having a
bit of trouble with the basics.

What I have at the mo is the parent form loading and immediately
displaying a child form, which is to be used to log in to the system
(username and password entry). When the user clicks connect on the
child form, I want the menu's on the parent to become enabled.

How can I enable the menus from within the child form code?

I've looked at loads of examples, but all they seem to talk about is
merging menu's - not what I'm after!

Any help would be greatly appreciated! :)

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[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* jd*@dsl.pipex-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (Uncle_Albert) scripsit:

Trying to get to grips with MDI applications at the mo and having a
bit of trouble with the basics.

What I have at the mo is the parent form loading and immediately
displaying a child form, which is to be used to log in to the system
(username and password entry). When the user clicks connect on the
child form, I want the menu's on the parent to become enabled.

How can I enable the menus from within the child form code?

\\\
DirectCast(Me.MdiParent, MainForm).MenuItem1.Enabled = True
///

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>

[Uncle_Albert]

Mate, you are infact a genius...I very much owe you! :D 8)

What's all this DirectCast about though? :?:

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[Uncle_Albert]

With MDI apps, what's the situation with regards to several different
types of child form in one app??

I ask because this MDI app I'm coding at the mo will need to have
several different types of child form, and I've read in a book that
such a thing is extremely unusual.

I'm trying to display a second child on the parent and the code for
this isn't being executed at all! :?

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[Seven Stars]

let me think about it...
will get back to you

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[Uncle_Albert]

It's just silly now...anything I change in the code has absolutely no
effect.

For example, even if I change the startup object to a totally
different form, it remains unchanged! So frustrated! :evil:

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[james]

How about some code samples of what you are doing to access the child
form(s) and what you are doing/trying to pass information between them ?
Otherwise, any advice is just a guess.
james

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With MDI apps, what's the situation with regards to several different
types of child form in one app??

I ask because this MDI app I'm coding at the mo will need to have
several different types of child form, and I've read in a book that
such a thing is extremely unusual.

I'm trying to display a second child on the parent and the code for
this isn't being executed at all! :?

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