cannot re-enable disable button

[zonar00]

Im using two forms. On form 1 i decides to open the specific form(form 2) i disables the
button which is present in form 1 by changing its property to btn.Enabled=false;

When i open the second form(form 2)and after doing some operations there i close
form 2 in c# there is a function
public void formclosed(Object sender,formclosedeventsargs e)
{

//in this function i call the form 1 constructor once again
form1 f1= new form1();

}
form1()
{
this.butn.enabled=true;

}

In doing dis nothing happens i still see btn in form1 as disabled i cannot click and perform
any other operation on it.

Please tell me whats going on...

[r035198x]

Im using two forms. On form 1 i decides to open the specific form(form 2) i disables the
button which is present in form 1 by changing its property to btn.Enabled=false;

When i open the second form(form 2)and after doing some operations there i close
form 2 in c# there is a function
public void formclosed(Object sender,formclosedeventsargs e)
{

//in this function i call the form 1 constructor once again
form1 f1= new form1();

}
form1()
{
this.butn.enabled=true;

}

In doing dis nothing happens i still see btn in form1 as disabled i cannot click and perform
any other operation on it.

Please tell me whats going on...

An object's constructor is called only once when that object is created. You did not call form1's constructor again. You created another form called form1 again.
If you want to control form1's controls from methods inside the form2 class then you need to pass a reference of the form1 object to either form2's contructor or one of its methods. Or better still, you could have a controller class that determines when what is displayed and how. It's just another design issue again ...

[zonar00]

An object's constructor is called only once when that object is created. You did not call form1's constructor again. You created another form called form1 again.
If you want to control form1's controls from methods inside the form2 class then you need to pass a reference of the form1 object to either form2's contructor or one of its methods. Or better still, you could have a controller class that determines when what is displayed and how. It's just another design issue again ...

I solved the problem i did it through passing the ref of form 1 into form 2 constructor. It did the tricked for me.

form1 f1;
form2(form1 f11)
{
f1=f11;
}

this f1 thus contained the current status for form 1 and i was able to control the disable feature by calling f1.btn.enabled=true;

where "btn"property / accessibility was set to "public"in order it to be accessible in other forms.

[r035198x]

I solved the problem i did it through passing the ref of form 1 into form 2 constructor. It did the tricked for me.

form1 f1;
form2(form1 f11)
{
f1=f11;
}

this f1 thus contained the current status for form 1 and i was able to control the disable feature by calling f1.btn.enabled=true;

where "btn"property / accessibility was set to "public"in order it to be accessible in other forms.

I hope you are always concious of having good design though ... and those variable names (form1, form2, f111) , I always see them in most .NET programs posted here, they are so bad and should be avoided. Variable names should reflect the real world use of the property.
That will save you and other programmers who may have to look at your code a lot of debugging time when the program becomes big.

[zonar00]

I hope you are always concious of having good design though ... and those variable names (form1, form2, f111) , I always see them in most .NET programs posted here, they are so bad and should be avoided. Variable names should reflect the real world use of the property.
That will save you and other programmers who may have to look at your code a lot of debugging time when the program becomes big.

yeah i know my programming teachers used to say the same thing over and over again.but i think in unsafe hands these real life resemblance means that your code becomes much clearer and understandable.

Without them, the other coder/hacker etc has to really dig in to understand whts going on. Its just as simple like if the fun() for the login process is named as authenticate(). The other coder would easily know that what it should and is there for.

[r035198x]

yeah i know my programming teachers used to say the same thing over and over again.but i think in unsafe hands these real life resemblance means that your code becomes much clearer and understandable.

Without them, the other coder/hacker etc has to really dig in to understand whts going on. Its just as simple like if the fun() for the login process is named as authenticate(). The other coder would easily know that what it should and is there for.

Trust me code hackers will be able to understand it even if you use form1 type variable names. You need better obfuscation algorithms than that.
The danger here is that will you be able to understand your own code when you want to edit it one day?