Hi All, Fairly new to VB,

[TMoney216]

Hi All,

Fairly new to VB, and I have, what is probably an easy one, a question.

How can I access controls on the main MDI form from a child or document form? When I run the code below I get a runtime error of "Only One MDI Form Allowed", it seems its treating it as another declaration of the form class frmMain.


This occurs when I try to update the main MDIForms status bar, from the Add button on my child form...


Private Sub cmdAdd_Click()
On Error GoTo AddErr


frmMain.sbStatusBar.Panels(2).Text = " Adding an Employee...."


adoPrimaryRS.MoveLast
adoPrimaryRS.AddNew
grdDataGrid.SetFocus

Exit Sub
AddErr:
MsgBox Err.Description
End Sub


Thanks!!!!

 

[Tranman]

I think you're on the right track. Every time I have seen that error it was either because I:
(1) Forgot to set the MDIChild property on a child form
or
(2) Created a copy of the main form, ie,
Dim xyz as frmMain

Good luck,
Paul