What is the ControlType of the Parent?

[FancyPrairie]

I have a textbox on a Page within a TabControl. I want to be able to loop thru the parents until I determine that the parent is the form. How do I know when the parent of the control represents the form?

For example:

    Dim ctl as control

    debug.print ctl.Parent               'displays "Page1" (Name of the Tab Control page)
    debug.print ctl.Parent.ControlType   '=124 (acPage)

    debug.print ctl.Parent.Parent.Name   'displays "tabCtl" (Name of my Tab Control)
    debug.print ctl.Parent.Parent.ControlType '=123 (acTabCtl)

    debug.print ctl.Parent.Parent.Parent.Name  'displays "Form1" (Name of my form)
    debug.print ctl.Parent.Parent.Parent.ControlType  'Error!! ControlType is not a property of a Form

How do I know that the last one represents a form and not a control?

 

[TrojanRabbit]

Maybe Type property. You can capture the error and check the error number if it gives one. Only ideas.

 

[FancyPrairie]

Thanks for responding.

Trapping the error was the only way I could figure out how to do it, too. I was hoping there was a cleaner way. Guess not.