Getting a value from another form

[alee15 10 88]

Hi all, I have a textbox in Form1, where the user of the mentioned program is going to enter his name. Then I have another Form (Form2) in which I would like to display the name of the user by getting it from Form1. I am using MDI. Can I do it? If so, can you help me please! Thanks a lot for your help

[Dy]

Either make the textbox in form 1 public, or define a property or function that's public to return the entered text. Then in form 2, you will be able to access it via the form 1 object. If you do not have a reference to the form 1 object in form 2, you won't be able to do that though.

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[freshonlineMax]

Hello Let me help you about this public problem. 1.in Form1 go to code view page (press F7) 2.change below definition of textBox1: **private** System.Windows.Forms.TextBox textBox1; To : **public** static System.Windows.Forms.TextBox textBox1; 3.now if you build your project you got some errors as : ...cannot be accessed with an instance reference; ... and you should change all "this.textBox1" to "Form1.textBox1" like : **this**.textBox1 = new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox(); change to : **Form1**.textBox1 = new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox(); 3.go to Form2 and where you want to access Form1's textBox1 just use this : MessageBox.Show (**Form1.textBox1.Text**); Easy... mail me if you have problem yet :-D -- modified at 11:14 Monday 8th May, 2006

[led mike]

Look up the Model View Controler design pattern. Views should not know about each other. Forms are Views in this case.

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[Colin Angus Mackay]

freshonlineMax wrote:

change below definition of textBox1: private System.Windows.Forms.TextBox textBox1; To : public static System.Windows.Forms.TextBox textBox1;

:omg: Why make fields in a class private, why not make them public?[^]

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[Colin Angus Mackay]

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