If you want to access Form1.ctrl from a child inheritance, you need to
declare Control ctrl as protected, not private.
See Line 4: private Control ctrl;
Cheers,
Erik
"Gregory Persson" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I am experiencing a weird error using Visual Inheritence when setting
> property values in a base form.
>
> I have 3 forms inheriting from each other in a chain:
>
> Form1 -> Form2 -> Form3
>
> Form1 looks like this:
>
> public class Form1 : Form
> {
>
> private Control ctrl;
>
> public Control theControl
> {
> get{ return ctrl; }
> set{ ctrl = value; }
> }
> }
>
> In Form2 I add a button "button1", and set the property "theControl" to
> "button1" in the Designer
> public class Form2 : Form1
> {
>
> protected System.Windows.Forms.Button button1;
>
> #region Designer generated code
>
> private void InitializeComponent()
> {
> this.SuspendLayout();
>
> // button1
> this.button1.Visible = true;
>
> // Form3
> this.Controls.AddRange(new System.Windows.Forms.Control[] {
> this.textBox1 });
> this.Name = "Form3";
>
> this.theControl = this.button1;
>
> this.ResumeLayout(false);
>
> }
> #endregion
> }
>
> In the Designer for Form 3, the property "theControl" shows "ctrl" as the
> value and places the following in InitializeComponents:
>
> public class Form3 : WindowsApplication2.Form2
> {
> #region Designer generated code
> private void InitializeComponent()
> {
> this.SuspendLayout();
>
> // ctrl
> this.ctrl.Name = "ctrl";
> this.ctrl.Visible = true;
>
> // Form3
> this.AutoScaleBaseSize = new System.Drawing.Size(5, 13);
> this.ClientSize = new System.Drawing.Size(292, 266);
> this.Controls.AddRange(new System.Windows.Forms.Control[] {
> this.ctrl});
> this.Name = "Form3";
> this.ResumeLayout(false);
> }
> #endregion
> }
>
> When I try to compile the code I get the following errors:
>
> 'Form1.ctrl' is inaccessible due to its protection level
> 'Form1.ctrl' is inaccessible due to its protection level
> 'Form1.ctrl' is inaccessible due to its protection level
>
>
> Why is the property value forcing the name of the private "ctrl" in Form1
on
> "button1"?
> What am I doing wrong here?
>
> ~Greg
>
>
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