MdiParent.Menu.MenuItems

[MARCELL0US]

Sup,

 

I am looking to enable/disable menu options on a parent form, from inside a child form subroutine.

 

After doing some searching I found that someone accomplished this by using:

 

MdiParent.Menu.MenuItems[0].MenuItems[0].Enabled = False

 

However, when I tried using this (and many variations), I got the following tooltip style pop-up message:

 

Property access must assign to the property or use its value

 

Does anyone have an info that could help a brother out?

 

Thanks,

[Negative0]

Use parentheses instead of brackets:

MdiParent.Menu.MenuItems(0).MenuItems(0).Enabled = False

 

Hope this helps,

[Guest mutant]

He might be using C# and in C# its brackets instead of ().

BTW, that code works fine for me, are you you have a menu at that position?(0,0)

[Negative0]

I thought about the fact he may be using C#, but if you use his code in VB, you get the exact error message that he mentioned. That is why I assumed he was using VB.

[Guest mutant]

Im sorry then :) , I was testing it in C#.

[MARCELL0US]

Toolbar Hiding, ToolbarButton enabling

 

Thanks. You guys were right about the parens instead of brackets. I ended up figured it out after a couple HOURS. Grr.

 

I'm more comfortable in C++ but am using VB to get used to it.

 

Actually, I have another problem that I haven't found a solution for:

 

How would I go about hiding/showing the toolbar on a parent from the child form. Same for enabling/disabling buttons on that toolbar?

 

Thanks again,

[divil]

You will have to cast the MdiParent property to the actual type of your form, which will enable you to access its members (such as the toolbar).

 

DirectCast(Me.MdiParent, Form1).Toolbar.Blah

[MARCELL0US]

Worked Great. Thanks a lot.