Inheriting Object from parent form

[mk48]

Hi,

I have a main form and I also have an additional form that is loaded from the main form. I would like to reuse an object that is declared and initialized in the main form. How can I do this? I set the child form to inherit from the main form but when I try to use the object, I receive errors indicating that it has not been declared.

Here is an example of what I have:

public class Mainform

dim myObject as theObject = nothing
myObject = ctype(function(),theObject)

End class

public class Childform inherits Mainform

myObject.function()

End class