Accessing public variable of the owner form 1

[erixire]

Hi,

I call a new form within my main form like this:

dim toto as new myNewForm
toto.ShowDialog(Me)

From this new form, I want to access public information from the owner (the main form). I can I do that? I tried something like this in the myNewForm without success:

msgbox (Me.Owner.mainFormPublicVariable)

Can somebody help me?

 

[chmohan]

http://www.vb2themax.com/Item.asp?PageID=TipBank&ID=441

 

[erixire]

Thanks chmohan, but I still have my problem: how do I access the variables from the main form within my new form? Even with your example, I wasn`t able to reach a public variable of the main form. I tried this in my new form:
Me.Owner.???.myPublicVariable

I don`t know what to put in place of the ??? to reach it. Can somebody help me with this one?

Thanks.

 

[chmohan]

public function sendvariable() as string

sendvariable=yourvariable
end function

call this from ur child form

 

[erixire]

How do you call it? I tried a lot of things, but I cannot see in the member list the function "sendvariable". For example:

'My Main Form
Public Class frmMain
...
'Display the child form
Dim childForm As New frmChild()
Me.AddOwnedForm(childForm)
childForm.Show()
...
public function sendvariable() as string

sendvariable = myVariable

End Function
...
End Class


<<<...the next code in another form...>>>


'My Child Form
Public Class frmChild
...
'HOW DO I REACH THE MYVARIABLE WITH sendvariable?
...
End Class

 

[chmohan]

Public Class frmChild
...
'HOW DO I REACH THE MYVARIABLE WITH sendvariable?
...
myvariable =Me.Owner.sendvariable
End Class

 

[chmohan]

see this

http://www.devcity.net/forums/faq.asp?fid=30&cat=Forms

 

[erixire]

The
myvariable =Me.Owner.sendvariable
doesn't work for me. I don't know why. But your link above gave me the answer I wanted. So thanks a lot.