For the reference to the child forms, you may want to call the method with a reference to the childform. Ex: ParentForm.MyMethod( Thisform )
Then you can get all objects, properties, etc of whatever the current THISFORM is.

As for changing the baseclass of a form, yes, you can change this.
Create a baseclass of the form and store in whatever class library you want. You may want to create a copy of all baseclasses and put into this library.

Then just USE the form.scx as if it was a standard .dbf file as that is all a form is. A table with records for each object and where it is based upon, etc.

Ex: USE MyFORM.SCX

Then browse this table
open the memo fields for "CLASS", "CLASSLOC", and "BASECLASS". When you get to the line that has BASECLASS = "FORM", just change the values of the CLASS to whatever the name of the form base class you created in your own class library. Ex: MyFormBase. Then change the value in CLASSLOC to the location that your class library exists. This should be relative directory position from where the form is. Ex: If you have a directory for all your forms in FORMS\ and all your custom classes in CLASSES\, you would want to set the classloc = "..\classes\myclasslib.vcx"

Close the table and run the form. Any changes you make to your new form base class will be reflected in any form using it.


>Hi All,
>
>I am putting in place multi-linguale functionality to an existing
>application. I created two recursive methods (SaveCaptions and
>SetCaptions) that are used to save and set the captions of a container and its sub-objetcs.
>
>These methods work fine when added to a form.
>
>Here is the problem:
>
>I am trying to call these methods from a child form but the methods being in the parent form, they cannot see the child form and its contained objects (I hope I am making sense...)
>
>Is there a way to make the child objects visible to the parent?
>Or a way to make these methods visible throughout the application?
>
>I cannot profit from inheritance since my application forms were based on the standard form class and not on a user-defined class (unless there is a way to change the baseclass of a form?)
>
>Anybody can help?
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>P.Charbonneau