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    Procedure Call on Separate Form

    What is the correct way to Call a procedure on a form from another form or module?



    The concept:

    Someone does something on one form and that form references a module. Once the module is referenced/evaluated it references to a specific point in the form that called the module in the first place.

    For Example:

    1. Uer enters data and clicks a button.
    2. Form calls theModuleProcedure. (Call theModuleProcedure)
    3. theModuleProcedure evaluates the user data entered.
    4. Module calls a certain point in the original form. (Call frmL.btnLogin_Click_Exit)


    The following is the error message I receive when trying to Call frmL.btnLogin_Click_Exit:
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    Note: frmL is defined as Dim frmL As Form_frmLogin in the module.

    When I change to Call frmL.btnLogin_Click.btnLogin_Click_Exit the following error appears with .btnLogin_Click highlighted:
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    When I change to Call frmL.btnLogin_Click the following error message appears:
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    frmL = Form_frmLogin
    Form Procedure = btnLogin_Click
    Login_Click Procedure = btnLogin_Click_Exit (this prevents a loop from occurring if issue detected)

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    Note: frmL is defined as Dim frmL As Form_frmLogin i
    Dim frmL As Form as a start (in some cases, such objects need to be Dim'd as Object). Then SET the object variable as in SET frmL = NameOfSomeForm
    Plus, to call a built in event such as Exit or Click the default Private needs to be changed to Public. However, the line is confusing to me
    frmL.btnLogin_Click.btnLogin_Click_Exit
    Surely that is not a built in event.
    AFAIK, you cannot assign the name of an object within the Dim statement as you are doing.
    P.S. is is rarely a good idea to run form module events from other forms or procedures.
    Last edited by Micron; 08-16-2019 at 02:36 PM.
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    I tried every variable I could think of and the same issue continued.

    The point is I was trying to access a specific point in a form after the module the evaluation it was programmed to do.

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    As Micron explained this isn't a great idea on a number of levels.

    Firstly you would have to guarantee that the module called always had to close the form it called, this would surely drastically reduce the usefulness of a reusable code module?
    Is the module a function returning a result ?

    Also as mentioned you have to change code in the form to Public to enable it to be called from anywhere other than the originating form.

    The syntax should you really want to do it would be

    Code:
     Forms("YourFormName").cmdFind_Click
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