I have a coding problem. I hope I can explain it well enough.

I’m using VC++.NET, managed window forms

I want a dialog window change some process going on controlled by a class
defined in my main window form class.

Let my give you some code snippets to make it clearer (hopefully):

public class someclass
{
    //code goes here
};

public: __gc class fclDialog
{
  public:
    void DoSomethingToo(void)
    {
         fclMainWindow->DoSomethig();
    }
};

public __gc class fclMainWindow
{
  public:
    someclass A = new someclass;
    void DoSomething(void)
    {
         //Code that effects “someclass”
         A->…
    };
   
    void OpenDialog(void)
    {
         fclDialog *DlgForm = new fclDialog();
         DlgForm->Show();
    };
};

I hope you can see what I’m trying to do. A function in the Dialog class has
to call a function in the MainWindow class from which it has been created and
called. When I try to compile my code I get an error saying that I can’t call
a non static function like this, and if I use the keyword static (static void
DoSomething(void)) I get an error saying it can not be used on functions with
file scope. What do I have to change?

Chris