Calling a method on another form/class....

[MattWoberts]

Hi,

I have a form, "X", that creates an instance of form "Y", and shows it via y.Show()..what I need to do is have Y call a method from the form X. Its probably really easy but I dont know how to do it...can anyone help?

 

[billchris]

Create a public method on Y that accepts a reference to X as a parameter and have X call it before calling Y.show().

For instance:

On Y

 public void setParent(X parentForm)
 {
   m_parentForm = parentForm;
 }

Then you would have X call

 Y.setParent(self);
 Y.show();

Now Y will have a reference to X and can call any public methods on it.



“I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” --Dwight Eisenhower

 

[MattWoberts]

Thanks - that worked!