Set subform invisble from button inside subform?

[CocodaMonkey]

I've been trying for awhile to set a subform as invisible from a button within the sub form itself. I have no problem doing it from the main form but can't figure out a way to do it from the sub form. I figured it's just an issue with the sub form not being allowed to have the focus when it's set to invisible but even if I set that it still doesn't work.

I have a main form called ClientsMainfrm. The subform is called ClientAddfrm. I can add "Me.ClientAddfrm.Visible = False" to any event on the main form and it works fine. But I need to be able to hide the sub form off an event inside the sub form itself so I figured I could do something like this in the sub form.

Forms![ClientsMainfrm].SetFocus
[ClientAddfrm].Form.Visible = false

For reasons I can't comprehend this actually closes the main form and makes it exit access completely. I've also tried things like

Forms![ClientsMainfrm].SetFocus
me.form.visible = false

and had no luck. Is it possible to hide a sub form based on an event from the sub form itself?

Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

 

[gemma-the-husky]

setfocus to something in the parent first

then it should work

 

[CocodaMonkey]

I've done that. I even showed it in my post. Is there some trick to doing this?

 

[gemma-the-husky]

i think oyu need to use a specific control on the main form

parent!txtbox.setfocus

then maybe explicitly

forms!mainformname!subform.visible = false

where subform is the name of the subform on the parent form

 

[CocodaMonkey]

Thanks that works. It seems to make a diffrence that I actually use parent rather then the name of the parent which strikes me as odd since the setfocus part seems to work either way but if I didn't use parent it crashes when I try to hide the sub form.

Thanks again