[RESOLVED] [2005] Tough Parent Question

[FourBlades]

At least it's a tough one for me:


1) Open Form A
2) In The Declarations Within Form A Declare frmB as New FormB
3) In the Load Event of Form A State: frmB.Parent = Me (i.e. Form A).

Question: Does this effectively make frmB a Control of Form A in the same sense that a TextBox on Form A is a control.

If not, what exactly is happening. I need to know.

Thanks

[benmartin101]

Not sure, but did that code actually run without crashing?

[FourBlades]

Yup, runs just fine. I just need to know exactly what the relationship of FormA is To FormB. Because in this situation FormB behaves exactly like a control or FormA in the sense that any other control behaves.

I think that's what occurs here but I really need to verify what's happening in the background. Does FormB (or frmB) in this example actually become a control of FormA?...

[calvin-c]

As far as I know, yes. But to verify try this:

For each x as Control in me.Controls
MessageBox.Show(x.Name)
Next x

If frmB shows up then it's one of FormA's controls.

[FourBlades]

Yup! Thanks for the suggestion. I just learned alot. Probably should have known it anyway since that seems to be just one step away from a user control.

So there ya go...

[mowafy]

to add Formb to formA as controll
do that
1- set the toplevel to false for formb
2- formA.controls.Add(formb)
now formb will be like any textbox or command bottun on form
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