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MDI forms, accessing controls

onez

One form has a checkbox. How do I access the state of this checkbox in the code of another form class (or any other control)? I tried changing private to public in the designer. When I set the main form to this.IsMDiContainer = true in the designer, it makes the entire background color of the form nasty gray but the controls keep their color. Any idea how to stop this. Also, how do I get the child form to not let the parents controls show through.

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Mykonine22y ago
The nasty gray can be fixed, I believe, through one of the form properties. Even if it can't, you can always paint the background a specific color by hand. Accessing the checkbox is more of a design issue than anything else. I don't think it's a good idea to try to access the checkbox directly. Maybe have the parent form hold some kind of value like "CheckBoxChecked" for the child form to access.
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