Accessing parent form variable from child form

[Ladislav Soukup]

Hi,
I'm now migrating to C# and .NET 1.1 programming from PHP and PERL and I
have one problem and I cannot solve it (google didn't help).

I have two forms - FORM1 and FORM2

FORM1 will make instance of FORM2 and open it...

Form frm = new FORM2();
frm.Open();

Now... when Form2 is closing I need to change some variables in FORM1 and
call one public function in FORM1.
How can I do this? Should I make new instance of FORM1 in FORM2 code, or can
I make direct call from FORM2 to FORM1 variables and methods?

Please help...
Thanks for any response (link to article, ...)

 

[Fabien Bezagu]

Ladislav,

To solve your problem, you simply have to consider your forms like instances
(what of course they are) of classic classes.
To call methods on *the* form1 instance which created the closing form2
instance, you have to know it. One way is to pass its reference to the form2
constructor.

Fabien

I'm now migrating to C# and .NET 1.1 programming from PHP and PERL and I
have one problem and I cannot solve it (google didn't help).

Really ? Nevertheless, it's a recurrent problem...

I have two forms - FORM1 and FORM2

FORM1 will make instance of FORM2 and open it...

Form frm = new FORM2();
frm.Open();

Now... when Form2 is closing I need to change some variables in FORM1 and
call one public function in FORM1.
How can I do this? Should I make new instance of FORM1 in FORM2 code, or
can I make direct call from FORM2 to FORM1 variables and methods?

 

[Ladislav Soukup]

OK, It's working now
Thank You VERY much, You realy helped me.

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Ladislav Soukup
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Ladislav,

To solve your problem, you simply have to consider your forms like
instances (what of course they are) of classic classes.
To call methods on *the* form1 instance which created the closing form2
instance, you have to know it. One way is to pass its reference to the
form2 constructor.

Fabien

I'm now migrating to C# and .NET 1.1 programming from PHP and PERL and I
have one problem and I cannot solve it (google didn't help).

Really ? Nevertheless, it's a recurrent problem...

I have two forms - FORM1 and FORM2

FORM1 will make instance of FORM2 and open it...

Form frm = new FORM2();
frm.Open();

Now... when Form2 is closing I need to change some variables in FORM1 and
call one public function in FORM1.
How can I do this? Should I make new instance of FORM1 in FORM2 code, or
can I make direct call from FORM2 to FORM1 variables and methods?

 

[Guest]

You should really consider using event delegates and let FORM2 trigger an
event that FORM1 can then catch.