MDI & a panel wich is made unvisible ...:-(

[reinier]

Hello everybody,

I can't think that someone hasn't solve this problem....here we go:

I have made a MDI-form, and several other forms.
On the MDI-form I have made 2 panels, wich contains several
buttons.
with a klick on a button: -a form is opened
-the panels are made unvisible.
On the form there is also a button, wich closes the form.
By closing the form, the MDI-form appears.

PROBLEM:
How can I make a panel (wich contains my buttons) visible,
without making a new instance!

The bottomline of the problem is this:
The problem is that I cannot change any property of
any control on the MDI, from the form wich is closing

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I tried:
-make a sub on MDI, wich makes the panel visible. This sub
is called from the form wich will be closed, code:
dim myclass1 as frmMDI
myclass1.subname..............:-(
-I tried most of the events....:-(
-I tried setting the width to 1 and with closing to 100 ......:-(
-I tried NOT using a MDI, but then there is the problem of
minimising/closing/resizing ......:-((

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reinier

[reinier]

( I will simplifie things, without changing the essance of the problem)

The bottomline of the problem is this:
The problem is that I cannot change any property of
any control on the Parent-form, from a clild-form (named frmForm2) wich is closing

I have created a Parentform, named frmMDI.
On the Parent there are buttons and panels.
With these buttons:
-a childform (frmForm2) is opened,
-buttons/panels are made invisible on the Parentform.

On the Child form there is also a ''close'' button,
with this close button: the child form is closed.

Problem:
When the closebutton is used, and the childform is CLOSING,
I cannot access any of the buttons or panels or any other control,
on the parent form.
IN other words, I only see a darkgrey PArentform on my screen,
without buttons.

How can I make the buttons on the PArentform visible, without
making a new instance?

Does this make things clear?

Regards,

[Steve Graddy]

I access items on the MDI parent (frmMDI) form from the child (frmChild) form with the following statement within the child form:

((frmMDI)this.Parent.Parent).SomePublicProperty = false;

What ever property or control you are trying to access will have to be made public.