Easy:reference values after dialog show

[EdgarBM]

Hi, I think my problem is easy to solve, but I'm giving too much time while I can solve it in other ways (uglier ones...). That's it: I've got a form which instantiates a simple form to get a user & pwd. When the Show method is finished I would like to get the values of the strings (properties) in the calling form. I can do it creating two public strings at the called form which are initialized to the Edit Controls value and read by the calling form when the Show method finishes. It's a simple solution, but I want a better one: Is it possible to pass the reference of the local strings to the constructor of the called form so when the Show method finishes the calling form already has the initialized values? I also tried to use Marshal interface and IntPtr, but the solution became uglier by moments... Does anyone know how to manage it?, is it possible?, maybe is there any similar solution which save me to create to public strings in the called form? Thank you in advance, Edgar __________________________________________ Edgar Berengena Moreno Software Engineer Appeyron Research

[Stephane Rodriguez]

Default param passing is by ref, so nothing prevents you from the caller Form to do this :

Form2 f = new Form2();
f.SetFormData(m_arrayData);
f.Show();

where m_arrayData is whatever collection, such as System.Collections.ArrayList for instance. Be warned though that .Show() returns immediately after the Form is displayed, thus you never know when the collection is updated, etc. Unless instead of passing a collection, you pass a class with a collection member and a SetDirty() method to tell the caller. Another interesting point is that the Form2 subform should not call you, but instead raise an event the caller Form has subscribed for. That's much more standard C#/Java programming-style. See http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/delegates-part1.asp[^]

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