Enabling menu item

[wsyeager]

Is there any way to enable a menu item that exists on an MDI form from within a child form?

My MDI menu item is declared as follows:
Friend WithEvents mnuAdHocExtOrdStatDlyRptPend As System.Windows.Forms.MainMenu
Me.mnuAdHocExtOrdStatDlyRptPend = New System.Windows.Forms.MainMenu()

Here is the code to initiate my child form:
Private Sub OrdStatDlyRptPend_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles mnuAdHocExtOrdStatDlyRptPend.Click

DisableMenus()
Dim frmObject As New frmOrdStatDlyRptPend()
frmObject.MdiParent = Me
StatusBar1.Panels(0).Text = "Loading Customers and ReportIDs..."
frmObject.Show()
StatusBar1.Panels(0).Text = "Processing Ad-hoc Daily Report Pending Order Status functionality..."

End Sub

Now that I'm in the child form, I was under the assumption that since the menu item (mnuAdHocExtOrdStatDlyRptPend) is declared as a "Friend", it should be available to all the methods from within the assembly.... However, when I try and use the following in the child form:
"mnuAdHocExtOrdStatDlyRptPend." and use the dot for the intellisense, nothing pops up.

How can I disable this MDI menu option from within my child form?

 

[ailzaj]

Try making the mdiParent & the child form public in a module,
then write the code for the child form in the mdiParent menu
item's click event, using the child form's new public name.

ailzaj

 

[wsyeager]

I just used the following code in my child form to accomplish this task:

Dim frmParentForm As frmMain

frmParentForm = Me.MdiParent

frmParentForm.mnuAdHocExtOrdStatDlyRptPend.Enabled = True

 

[divil]

One thing to note is that wouldn't quite work if you had Option Strict on (which you should ), instead it's good practice to explicitly cast to the frmMain type when you need to:

frmParentForm = DirectCast(Me.MdiParent, frmMain)