When you place a usercontrol on a usercontrol
(instead of a form), in the childUsercontrol's code,
     Parent.<Anyproperty>
or even
     Extender.Parent.<AnyProperty>
bombs out.
     "no such property or method".

But the BEST part is on the de{*filter*} watch window
when you type Parent, you can see all of its
property under it with correct Values. For example
say Name, Controls etc. But when you type
Parent.<theProperty> (e.g. Parent.Name) it says
boms.

If the usercontrol is on a form the Parent.Name
returns the form's Name . But bombs instead of
returning the parentusercontrol's name when you
place the same control on another usercontrol.

SOS!!! Any ideas? Please Save my life?

Sujata.

Hi Sujata:

Try exposing the Parent object, i.e.

'Main usercontrol
Public Property Get Parent() As Object
   Set Parent = UserControl.Parent
End Property

'Child usercontrol

Private Sub UserControl_Click()
   Debug.Print Parent.Parent.Name
End Sub

Hope this helps,

Doug.

Doug,

U r a life saver!

I think this is working. I tried it out in a small
dummy project. I exposed the parent usercontrol's
properties and it is working now.

I will try it out in my real usercontrol today. I can
only hope no other problems crop up.

BTW, In MSDN Help I also searched on "exposing"
and found the following:

"By default, the properties of the UserControl
object - and the constituent controls you add
to it - are not visible to the end user of your
control"

Thanks a lot again!

Sujata.