referencing a control on another form

[kornstyle]

I know that this is extremely simple. I want to display the text of a textBox on one form on the text of a label on another form. The code that I have works, but what gets displayed on form2.label is the text of form1.textBox at Design Time. Here is what I got. /// Code on the first form. private void button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { Form2 form2 = new Form2(); form2.Show(); } /// Code on the second form. private void button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { Form1 form1 = new Form1(); label1.Text = form1.textBox1.Text; }

[tdciDoug]

put a function in form2 to get your value, and then call it from form1. Set your label there. Have a wonderful evening Doug Wright Developer, TDCI

[Luis Alonso Ramos]

kornstyle wrote: private void button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { Form1 form1 = new Form1(); label1.Text = form1.textBox1.Text; } You are creating a new form everytime you try to get the text (but you never make it visible). That's why you get the text set at design time. You need to somehow get a reference to the existing Form1.

/// Code on the first form.

private void button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
Form2 form2 = new Form2(this);
form2.Show();
}


/// Code on the second form.

Form _form1 = null;
public Form2(Form form1)
{
    _form1 = form1;
}
private void button1_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
label1.Text = _form1.textBox1.Text;
} 

-- LuisR

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[kornstyle]

Got it. Thanks a lot.