First Main Form quick question.

[Miro]

Without using this:
For Each currentForm As Form In My.Application. OpenForms

or using something like me.mdi parent

how can i reference the main form's form variable.

Example:
If i open another form I can say:
dim bla as new frmForm2

i can now do bla.windowstate = blajsdfkljdslkj f

how can I ( in a submost form that is like 3 windows deep say somethign
like )

frmMainForm.min imize

its the frmMainForm variable I am having trouble with - since I dont
actaully define the first variable i dont have a reference to it.

I suppose I can make a public variable and when the main window opens put
the mainform's reference into it, but wondering if vb.net already has an
internal variable that holds the 'first' main form.

Thanks,

Miro

[James Hahn]

Re: First Main Form quick question.

There is a good description of this issue here:

http://www.devcity.net/PrintArticle.aspx?ArticleID=117

But more recently, see this:

http://www.panopticoncentral.net/archive/2005/01/17/7052.aspx

Basically, the type name can be used to access a default instance.

"Miro" <miro@beero.com wrote in message
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Without using this:
For Each currentForm As Form In My.Application. OpenForms
>
or using something like me.mdi parent
>
how can i reference the main form's form variable.
>
Example:
If i open another form I can say:
dim bla as new frmForm2
>
i can now do bla.windowstate = blajsdfkljdslkj f
>
how can I ( in a submost form that is like 3 windows deep say somethign
like )
>
frmMainForm.min imize
>
its the frmMainForm variable I am having trouble with - since I dont
actaully define the first variable i dont have a reference to it.
>
I suppose I can make a public variable and when the main window opens put
the mainform's reference into it, but wondering if vb.net already has an
internal variable that holds the 'first' main form.
>
Thanks,
>
Miro

[Miro]

Re: First Main Form quick question.

Thank you James,

Thats exactly what I ended up doing, in the end.

However this article was helpful as I created a public module and not a
friend module.

Thank you,

Miro

"James Hahn" <jhahn@yahoo.co mwrote in message
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There is a good description of this issue here:

http://www.devcity.net/PrintArticle.aspx?ArticleID=117

>
But more recently, see this:

http://www.panopticoncentral.net/archive/2005/01/17/7052.aspx

>
Basically, the type name can be used to access a default instance.
>
"Miro" <miro@beero.com wrote in message
news:O5%23jZsdR JHA.4524@TK2MSF TNGP06.phx.gbl. ..

>Without using this:
>For Each currentForm As Form In My.Application. OpenForms
>>
>or using something like me.mdi parent
>>
>how can i reference the main form's form variable.
>>
>Example:
>If i open another form I can say:
>dim bla as new frmForm2
>>
>i can now do bla.windowstate = blajsdfkljdslkj f
>>
>how can I ( in a submost form that is like 3 windows deep say somethign
>like )
>>
>frmMainForm.mi nimize
>>
>its the frmMainForm variable I am having trouble with - since I dont
>actaully define the first variable i dont have a reference to it.
>>
>I suppose I can make a public variable and when the main window opens put
>the mainform's reference into it, but wondering if vb.net already has an
>internal variable that holds the 'first' main form.
>>
>Thanks,
>>
>Miro

>