[AccessD] Trouble referencing a control on another form

Forms("FormB).Form!MachineOrPress

-- 
Stuart

On 9 Oct 2011 at 15:43, Arthur Fuller wrote:

> I'm having trouble with the following scenario:
> 
> I'm in one form (call it FormA). A button there opens another form
> (FormB), which displays a list of records and a pair of buttons (Copy
> and Close). The code in FormA opens FormB in dialog mode. The general
> idea here is that the user selects a record on FormB and hits the Copy
> button, whose code merely says "Me.Visible" = False. The code on the
> Close button closes the form. At this point, we are back on FormA, If
> FormB is still loaded, then I want to copy certain of its controls to
> controls of the same name on FormB.
> 
> I've tried several approaches such as:
> 
> With Me
>       .MachineOrPress = Forms("FormB).MachineOrPress
> End With
> 
> I also tried;
> 
> Dim frm as form
> Set frm = Forms("FormB")
> With Me
>       .MachineOrPress = frm.MachineOrPress
> End With
> 
> In both cases, all I can see in Intellisense is the properties of
> FormB -- not the list of controls.
> 
> I know there has to be a simple way to to refer to  FormB's controls,
> but so far I haven't got it, and if I don't it soon I'll scrap this
> approach and use a recordset instead.
> 
> Can anyone help me sort this out?
> 
> TIA,
> Arthur
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