Moving data from one form to another

[Lost User]

Lets say I have two forms (Form1 and Form2). On Form1 there is a listbox that holds phone numbers. On Form2 there is two textboxes where you enter a phonenumber and a description. On Form1 you click a button and it opens Form2 to enter the information. So how do you take the information that is entered on Form2 and add it to the listbox on Form1?

[Ravi Bhavnani]

There are several ways to do this. I'll give you the "easiest" (and least elegant):

1. Make the Form1.myListBox member public.
2. Pass a reference of the Form1 instance to Form2.
3. In Form2's OnOKButtonClicked() handler, add the required entry to myListBox.

/ravi

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[XeoN Kc]

You can use Ravi's solution. However, that will make some data off your listbox, public. I suggest to have Form2 with a property of type string,which gets and sets the data. in your case the set is mostly important. From Form1...you only need to set the property. From form2 just set the given value to the textbox. I think its a little safer. Regards Kev. ;)

[Lost User]

Yea... uhmm I'm still a little confused... do you have an example or a website with a tutorial?

[Lost User]

I'm still lost on this. I made listBox1 public. Now how exactly am I going to do this? I need to transfer a textbox from Form2 back to Form1.

[Ravi Bhavnani]

Jacob Dixon wrote:

I need to transfer a textbox from Form2 back to Form1.

No. You need to copy data from one control (a textbox) to another (a listbox). For example:

theListBox.Items.Add (theTextBox.Text);

It seems you may have taken on a task that's (currently) a bit out of your reach. I recommend that you come up to speed on the basics of WinForms before continuing. /ravi

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[Lost User]

Yea i know.. I haven't continued, but I'm ordering two books and going to read some more.