this is one of those upsurdly basic questions for which google does not work. I have usually dispatched events from my classes and dealt with the user interface in the document class. But now i want to separate all the UI in a separate class, accessible by other classes.

I have added it as a child to the main/document class, but how do i reference the main class without going through parent.parent shananigans?

edit. one more thing i remembered. Some of my UI elements are not programatically added.