FormLib And Modules

[Cableguy]

Hi guys...

I have a few modules in a project of mine and I am tiding things up...
I have a module called "components" were I create all controls in runtime and add all DLL objects I require...
Now I was hopping to move all the controls and Objects SUBs to the main module, so that only the initialization of the components were in the components module...
I added FormLib to allow me to change the parent of a control, so far so good, now I'm getting this message when I try to change the parent of a Timer created in the components module to the Main module form:

Object of type 'DBasic.EnhancedControls.CEnhancedTimer' cannot be converted to type 'System.Windows.Forms.Control'

Why?
I want to be able to execute an event in a diferent module of the one the control was created on...How?

 

[Erel]

Timer doesn't really have a parent form. It is a global "control". So you can't move it between forms and actually it doesn't really matter as you can use it everywhere you need.

 

[Cableguy]

But I tried firing the tick event from the main module an it errors...
it never gets fired

 

[Erel]

You should use AddEvent. In this example I have a timer in a module named mm.

Sub App_Start
    Form1.Show
    AddEvent("mm.timer1", Tick, "Timer1FromDifferentModule_tick")
    mm.Timer1.Enabled = True
End Sub
Sub Timer1FromDifferentModule_tick
    form1.Text = TimeS
End Sub

 

[Cableguy]

Of course!!!!!!! I had forgot the AddEvent Keyword!!!!....

But can I use it this way?

AddEvent("timer1", Tick, "mm.Timer1FromDifferentModule_tick")

were "mm" is the name of the module were the event sould fire

The answer is......YES!!!!!!