Accessing Controls from a different class....

[Zmcpherson]

Alright I have 3 forms - The load up form "QoE" and two public classes. I also have an progress bar on the main form "QoE." Ive been able to access controls in other classes in numerous other projects, but for some reason this project is giving me fits. I have no idea why I can not control the progress bar from my class "Utils."

The classes kind of look like this:

Public Class QoE
End Class

Public Class Utils
    public shared sub ProgressBar
        Dim f1 as New QoE()
        f1.ProgressBarMain.Increment(+1)
        f1.ProgressPercent.Text = f1.ProgressBarMain.Value.ToString() & "%"
    end sub 
End Class

Public Class Tests
    public shared sub DoWork
        Utils.Progressbar()
    End Sub 
End Class

Now, I was always under the impression that I could simply just call the controls like this:

QoE.ProgressBarMain.Increment(+1)

I actually have other projects where i did this, but now I am getting the error - "reference to a non shared member requires an object reference."

So Ive been tinkering with the above code because I have seen other people do it around the net. I don't receive an error, but it is also not doing anything.

I have all the controls set to public of course, so why is this not working?

Thanks Guys

Edit* I went back through my old projects and I definitely have called form1 controls before using something like form1.listbox.add() from form2. I cant figure out what is different though between that project and this project.