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brokenhope · Sep 10th, 2005, 1:28 PM

ShowDialog, instead of Show worked. Thanks. I have one last question about trying to communicate to the main form from the new form....

I have two forms

formMain
formFileNew

When you click the new button on formMain the formFileNew form comes up, when you click OK on formFileNew it needs to close itself (which works) and enable rtbTextBox on formMain, which doesnt work.

I cant figure out how to naviagate the code to the main form. Heres the code I tried in formFileNew to do this, which doesnt work:

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    Private Sub cmdOk_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles cmdOk.Click
        Dim formMain As formMain
        formMain.rtbTextBox.Enabled = True
        Me.Close()
    End Sub

formMain.rtbTextBox.Enabled = True Fails and I get an error. Everything is spelled correct as well. Anyone know how to do this?

Sep 10th, 2005, 1:28 PM	#6
brokenhope Hobbyist Programmer Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 126 Rep Power: 4	ShowDialog, instead of Show worked. Thanks. I have one last question about trying to communicate to the main form from the new form.... I have two forms formMain formFileNew When you click the new button on formMain the formFileNew form comes up, when you click OK on formFileNew it needs to close itself (which works) and enable rtbTextBox on formMain, which doesnt work. I cant figure out how to naviagate the code to the main form. Heres the code I tried in formFileNew to do this, which doesnt work: (Toggle Plain Text) Private Sub cmdOk_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles cmdOk.Click Dim formMain As formMain formMain.rtbTextBox.Enabled = True Me.Close() End Sub Private Sub cmdOk_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles cmdOk.Click Dim formMain As formMain formMain.rtbTextBox.Enabled = True Me.Close() End Sub formMain.rtbTextBox.Enabled = True Fails and I get an error. Everything is spelled correct as well. Anyone know how to do this?