Thanks Kerry right after i sent it i had a brain wave and figured if i
created a public debug window object on the child form i could load the
debug window on the parent form then pass the parent window's debug window
to the child when it loads, i then created a public sub on the debug form
that takes care of my writing to the text box.: Makes more sense if i show
it:
Public Class frmParent
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form
Public frmDebug As New Debug
Private Sub frmParent_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
frmDebug.MdiParent = Me
frmDebug.Show()
frmDebug.WindowState = FormWindowState.Minimized
End Sub
Private Sub OpenMap_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles MenuOpenMapWindow.Click
Dim MapForm As New frmMain
MapForm.MdiParent = Me
MapForm.Show()
MapForm.DebuggingForm = frmDebug
End Sub
End Class
Public Class frmMain
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form
Public DebuggingForm As Debug
End Class
"Kerry Moorman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:38BCE067-9D9E-468A-8C33-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Gary,
>
> Create a "global" variable on the MDI form to reference the debug form:
>
> Public debugForm As Form2
>
> In the MDI form's Load event, load the debug form:
>
> debugForm = New Form2
>
> debugForm.MdiParent = Me
>
> debugForm.Show()
>
> On any MDI Child application form, write to the debug form:
>
> Dim f As Form1 = Me.MdiParent
>
> f.debugForm.TextBox2.Text = f.debugForm.TextBox2.Text &
> ControlChars.NewLine & "Debug info"
>
> Kerry Moorman
>
>
>
> "Gary Townsend" wrote:
>
> > I have seen similar requests to this but not quite what i was looking
for i
> > have an mdi interface and i have 3 child forms 2 are application forms
> > (meaning they do stuff for the application) and the other is a debug
window
> > with a multiline text field for displaying debug messages within the
> > application.
> >
> > What happens is i load the debug form on the mdi parents load event and
> > minimize it then i load my application forms. What i want to know is how
to
> > be able to write messages to the debug window. I had at one point tried
to
> > create the debug window as a global property of the MDI parent but i
haven't
> > been able to reference the frmDebug property that i made within my child
> > forms. So now i am looking for other suggestions.
> >
> >
> >
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