Understanding MDI forms

[AaronL]

Hello, I need some help understanding MDI forms.

I want to get the contents of the active child MDI form, how do you do that? Here's what I did to create a child form.

        childForm += 1
        If childForm > UBound(childForms) Then
            ReDim childForms(childForm)
        End If
        childForms(childForm) = New formHTML
        childForms(childForm).FormID = childForm
        childForms(childForm).MdiParent = Me
        childForms(childForm).Show()

So say I want to get the text from an active form. How can I get the active form id so I can just do this?

childforms(chil dform).textbox1 .text

[Joseph Martell]

Usually, child forms do not have knowledge of each other, so you would have to find the active child form through the MDI parent.

Assuming that this code appears in the MDI parent, you could access the active child this way:

Me.ActiveMdiChild

It doesn't user your childforms array, but it achieves your stated goal.