Access MDI parent control from MDI child[RESOLVED]

Hello everybody,

From my MDI child form, I need to change the text property of statusbar panel of MDI parent.

Thanks

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Originally Posted by usamaalam

Hello everybody,

From my MDI child form, I need to change the text property of statusbar panel of MDI parent.

Thanks

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from the MDI child use this
this.MdiParent.YouStatusBarsName....


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I am unable to see status bar in MDIParent property of the child form.

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Originally Posted by usamaalam

I am unable to see status bar in MDIParent property of the child form.

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oh my bad! I wasnt thinking right

VB Code:

Dim frmParent As frmMdiParent
frmParent = DirectCast(Me.MdiParent, frmMdiParent)
frmParent.statusBarHere

MdiParent property returns the form, but it returns it as a general form. You need to convert it to the the type of your main mdi form is called, and you do that by calling DirectCast as you see up there

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ah thought I'm in the vb.net forum. I leave that up for reference :) here's the c# version:

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frmMdiParent frmParent = (frmMdiParent)this.MdiParent;
frmParent.statusBar1.Text="DASFADSF";

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where frmMdiParent is the name of your mdi form, and you put this code in the mdi child form.
One thing I just noted is that apparently in C# controls and things you put on the form are declared as private, so you need to manually change the code that VS.NET generates. In your mdi form, if you search for the name of your statusbar you should see a line like this near the top of the class:
private System.Windows.Forms.StatusBar statusBar1;
you need to change the private to public in order for you to be able to access it through the mdi child

HTH

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Thanks. I made a little conversions for C#. Now this works for me.

Thank you so much, i searched too much for this but not one was able to help me, by chance i visited ur reply and got the solution.....
Good work done...
Thanks