Accessing controls on another form.

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Hi

I posted this to the .Net general newsgroup and got a reply from "Morten"
who has given me an answer but in C# a language I have never worked with.
VB.Net is still very new to me, I was hoping someone here in the VB.net
group could help me a little. I have copied the posts to here.

Morten has given me a code snippet in C# but where do I use it and what is
the VB.Net equivalent.

Thanks DaveG

''''''''' Orig Post ''''''''''''''

>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Using VB.net 2003
>>>
>>> I know how to access controls on a 2nd form after declaring the form
>>> in the first.
>>>
>>> But how do I access the controls on the original form from the 2nd
>>> form.
>>>
>>> (in frmMain)
>>> Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e
>>> As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
>>> Dim form2 As New Form2
>>> form2.TextBox1.Text = TextBox1.Text
>>> form2.Show()
>>> End Sub
>>>
>>> (in Form2)
>>> Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e
>>> As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
>>> Dim form1 As New Form1
>>> form1.TextBox1.Text = TextBox1.Text
>>> form1.Update()
>>> Me.Close()
>>>
>>> End Sub
>>>
>>>
>>> Form2 textbox updates ok
>>> The textbox in form1 does not update and still holds the original text
>>> before opening Form2
>>>
>>> This is just a simple example I cannot get working, once I can get
>>> this working the I should not have problems with the actual code I
>>> need to use.
>>>
>>> There must be a simple answer to this....???
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any help given
>>>
>>> DaveG

>> Hi Dave,
>>
>> You need to pass a reference to your 1st form when declaring the 2nd,
>> typically
>>
>> Form2 f2 = new Form2(this); // Me in VB
>>
>> Overload the constructor of the 2nd form to accept a 1st form
>> parameter. Store the parameter for later use
>>
>> On Sat, 30 Apr 2005 13:29:05 +0200, DaveG <no.spam.dave@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
> Thanks Morten
>
> Now the problem is I have used the overload in normal funtions and subs
> but never with the constructors, so now I'm a little lost, I understand
> the reasons for the overload..... so the New form2(Me) will be excepted
> bur how to implement it is where I am stuck......


Dave, overloading a constructor is done the exact same way, although I'm
not sure how the VB syntax is. Store the Form1 reference for later use.

private Form1 myParent;

public Form2(Form1 f)
{
myParent = f;
}

then simply call

myParent.MethodOrSimilarInForm1()

whenever you need.

.

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