MDI Form

[Bobbo70]

Hi All;
I have a MDI application with some menus to load some child forms. I used to disable the menu after the child form loaded. I couldn't access the menus except if the form is child but I want to access some menus and public subs in the MDI form from another child or none child form. How could I do that.
Note: I use DirectCast from the child form to access a MDI form's menus.

[fret]

I'm not clearly understand your problem but try to get some idea with this, hope this would help.
your trying to disable some menus and in the MdiParent whether the form is child or not.

in the main form:

' MenuItem2 used to open Form2 as child of Form1
    Private Sub MenuItem2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MenuItem2.Click
        Dim frm2 As New Form2
        frm2.MdiParent = Me
        frm2.Show()
    End Sub
 
    'Sample Public 
    Public Sub hello()
        MessageBox.Show("hello world")
    End Sub
 
    ' MenuItem3 used to open Form3 not a child of Form1
    Private Sub MenuItem3_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MenuItem3.Click
        Dim frm3 As New Form3
        Me.AddOwnedForm(frm3)
        frm3.Show()
    End Sub

in your form2:

Dim frmMain As Form1 ' Form1 is the MdiParent
    Private Sub Form2_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        frmMain = DirectCast(Me.MdiParent, Form1)
        frmMain.MenuItem2.Enabled = False ' disable the menu(MenuItem2) from the Form1 which is the MdiParent
    End Sub
 
    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        frmMain.hello() ' access sample public sub in the Form1 which is the MdiParent
    End Sub

in your form3:

Dim frmMain As Form1 ' Form1 is the MdiParent
    Private Sub Form3_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        frmMain = DirectCast(Me.Owner, Form1) ' frmMain is the owner of this form(Form3)
        frmMain.MenuItem3.Enabled = False ' disable menu(MenuItem3) from the MdiParent
    End Sub
 
 
    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        frmMain.hello()
    End Sub