Hi,

I have several forms which each contain a similar Grid. I want to be able to process any such Grid with a single (public) Procedure, residing in the Main.bas module, instead of writing the same procedure again and again in each Form.

Question : is there a way of referencing an object belonging to, say, a Form, from within a procedure "implicitly" , AND NOT by calling it by its complete name ( Form99.Grid1.Row ) ?

The idea is that I would need an implicit variable/"pointer" to indicate the calling Form - similar, I think, to "Me". Then, I would be able to write something like

CallingForm.Flex1.Row = 2 etc, etc...

where "CallingForm" is the implicit "pointer" towards any of the forms which call the Procedure.

Thanks,

Mike

No, you cannot reference a form implicitly from within a module, but why can't you pass in the form instance (Me) as an argument to the module function?

The Function that processes the Form (and all other forms that call it) is not in the Form's code, but in a separate code module, where all public functions of the Project reside.

Yes I understand that, what I mean is why can't you change the module functions from:
Public Function DoSomethingWithGrid(arg1, ..., argN)
to
Public Function DoSomethingWithGrid(theForm, arg1, ..., argN)
then when you call DoSomethingWithGrid just pass in 'Me' as the first argument.

(You could instead pass in a reference to the actual Grid object rather than its containing form - I think I prefer that...)

hth
Phil

OK, I tried it and it works ("theForm" variable of DoSomething... defined as type "object").

You can then reference it (theForm.Flex.Row... ) from within the function and change the calling form or the objects it contains.

Thanks

It is a bad idea to assume that the global procedure knows the name of the grid in the form you are passing. As you wrote, it works only if the form has a grid named 'Flex'.
Much safer to pass the grid itself:

Public sub DoGrid(grd as MSFlexGrid, ...)

and call it from your form with:

DoGrid Me.NameOfTheGrid

In this way you can reuse you main code and any form can rename their grids as needed without breaking the code.

Marco