That means the functions that are opening the new forms are static methods
of the main form instead of instance methods. Is this on purpose, and, if
so, is there a reason they need to be this way?
Regardless, here's a pretty simple way of doing this. In you main form,
create a public static variable and use it for the call to
Application.Run(), e.g.
class MainForm : System.Windows.Forms.Form
{
public static MainForm TheMainForm = null;
public static void Main()
{
TheMainForm = new MainForm();
Application.Run(TheMainForm);
}
}
Now in any other form, if you need to reference the main form, do this:
class SomeOtherForm : System.Windows.Forms.Form
{
public SomeMethod()
{
string s = MainForm.TheMainForm.GetValueOfSomeTextBox();
}
}
Ken
"Ray Stevens" <Ra********@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:58**********************************@microsof t.com...
Passing a reference to the main form does not work. The compiler give an
error "can't reference 'this'". I still can not find the instance variable
for the main form.
"Lars Wilhelmsen" wrote:
Hi Ray,
"Ray Stevens" <Ra********@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:DF**********************************@microsof t.com... How do you access properties of the main program's class from another
form? There does not apear to be an instance variable that can be
used.
A) Pass a reference to your main form when creating others.
B) Implement an public application singleton, containing the base
logic - which
may include a Collection of all the created forms - then you can
access the
singleton's collection of forms whenever you feel like doing
form2form communication ;-)
--
Lars Wilhelmsen
http://www.sral.org/
Software Engineer
Teleplan A/S, Norway
