(.NET) Accessing "parent" Form class members from a "child" form?
I have a main MDI form as my startup object. From there I have it setup so that when I click on a menu item, it spawns a new instance of a form that it my level editing window for my game (lets call it''s class Form2). It is also owned by the main form if that matters.
Anyway, what my problem is, is that I can''t access the public members of the main form (Form1) that created the editing window (Form2), but I can have the Form1 access the public members of the Form2 that it created. (Which make sense.) So, why can''t I have Form2 access the members of Form1?
The IDE told me that it wasn''t a shared member, so I changed the variable from Public to Shared and it worked just fine. However, I was under the assumption that Shared was only used to share a member of a class with other instances of the same class. In my case (even though technically they both inherit from the Forms object) they are different classes.
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