References to references

[michael]

I have 2 forms. In the first, I have a reference to an object. I want to
assign an object to that reference from within the second form. If I pass the
first reference to the new(...) method of the second form ByRef, I can easily
assign an object to the reference in the first form.

However, I don't want to make this assignment in the new(...) of the second
form. So I made a reference(of the same type) in the second form and assigned
it to the reference passed from the first form in the new(...) method. I
hoped that this way I could make an assignment to the reference in the second
form and change what the reference in the first form was pointing to, since
the references were assigned to each other in the new(...) method. Sort of a
reference to a reference. Unfortunately, it didn't work.

Is there a way in VB .NET to create a reference to a reference so that I can
delay the assignment of an object to a reference in another form to a method
other than the new(...)?

Michael
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Michael Hockstein
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Michael Hockstein

[Think_Fast]

You can create a shared variable in the main form the access it from Form2:
Like this

In Form1:

Public Class Form1
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form

'-- Shared
Public Shared myObject As YourClass
End Class
In Form2

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Form1.myobject = New YourClass
End Sub


"michael" <ho**********@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
news:33**********************************@microsof t.com...

I have 2 forms. In the first, I have a reference to an object. I want to
assign an object to that reference from within the second form. If I pass
the
first reference to the new(...) method of the second form ByRef, I can
easily
assign an object to the reference in the first form.

However, I don't want to make this assignment in the new(...) of the
second
form. So I made a reference(of the same type) in the second form and
assigned
it to the reference passed from the first form in the new(...) method. I
hoped that this way I could make an assignment to the reference in the
second
form and change what the reference in the first form was pointing to,
since
the references were assigned to each other in the new(...) method. Sort of
a
reference to a reference. Unfortunately, it didn't work.

Is there a way in VB .NET to create a reference to a reference so that I
can
delay the assignment of an object to a reference in another form to a
method
other than the new(...)?

Michael
--
Michael Hockstein
--
Michael Hockstein

[michael]

That'll work, but it's kind of like adding a global variable. I wanted to try
the reference route.

Thanks
"Think_Fast" wrote:

You can create a shared variable in the main form the access it from Form2:
Like this

In Form1:

Public Class Form1
Inherits System.Windows.Forms.Form

'-- Shared
Public Shared myObject As YourClass
End Class
In Form2

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As
System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Form1.myobject = New YourClass
End Sub


"michael" <ho**********@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
news:33**********************************@microsof t.com...

I have 2 forms. In the first, I have a reference to an object. I want to
assign an object to that reference from within the second form. If I pass
the
first reference to the new(...) method of the second form ByRef, I can
easily
assign an object to the reference in the first form.

However, I don't want to make this assignment in the new(...) of the
second
form. So I made a reference(of the same type) in the second form and
assigned
it to the reference passed from the first form in the new(...) method. I
hoped that this way I could make an assignment to the reference in the
second
form and change what the reference in the first form was pointing to,
since
the references were assigned to each other in the new(...) method. Sort of
a
reference to a reference. Unfortunately, it didn't work.

Is there a way in VB .NET to create a reference to a reference so that I
can
delay the assignment of an object to a reference in another form to a
method
other than the new(...)?

Michael
--
Michael Hockstein
--
Michael Hockstein