status bar from child forms?

[visiontec]

hi there i have an mdi form which has a few child forms in the mdi form i have a status bar how can i add text to the status bar from the child forms? VisionTec

[Heath Stewart]

You simply need to expose the StatusBar (or better yet, the StatusBar.Text property for a better OO design in reference to encapsulation and protection) on the main form. Your child forms could so something like this, assuming that your main form (ex, MainForm) had a String property called StatusText:

MainForm form = (MainForm)this.MdiParent;
form.StatusText = "Hello, world!"

Honestly, how you provide access to status bar is completely up to your implementation. This is simply a matter of creating a good object-oriented design.

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