accessing vars from different form

[nacho2]

Hi guys, going crazy with this:

When I want to open a new form I do something like:

Dim newform as fromclass1 = new formclass1
newform.show()

if I want to change a textbox in newform I can do:

newform.textbox.text= "nice"

Now, what if I want to access a public element (such as a combobox or textbox) in the original form (from where newform opened) from the form newform?

I just want to do the same I did above to access newform.textbox but inverse. The form from where newform was called already exists (obviously) and it was called firstform, but doing, from newform:

firstform.textbox doesn't work,
not even if I declare firstform as public.

Hope I explained it clearly enough.

Thanks

[Asgorath]

firstform.textbox doesn't work,
not even if I declare firstform as public.

How did you declared it public?

Regards
Jorge

[nacho2]

In the form where firstform opens from instead of writing:

Dim firstform as formclass2 = new formclass2

I did:

Public firstform... same thing

The most difficult thing about this problem I think it is explaining it!

[Asgorath]

Declare it has

Public firstform as new firstform

On firstform load event put this

firstform = me

on firstform closing event put this

firstform = nothing

Regards
Jorge

[nacho2]

Don't quiet get it!


I got a form which opens when I execute the application, lets call it firstfirstform, and it has the following code:

Public firstform as formclass2 = new formclass2

later on...

event click:

firstform.show()

Now in firstform got almost the same:

Public newform as formclass1 = new formclass1

later on...

newform.show()

Now from newform I need to access a textbox which is in firstform, I try to do firstform.textbox.text=...

but i says I haven't declared firstform.

I've tried to use the lines you told me but don't seem to work.

[nacho2]

Can I handle an event of newform from firstform?

instead of this:

Private Sub firstform_Closed(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.closed

writing something like this:

Private Sub newform_Closed(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles newform.closed

That above doesn't work but maybe the idea is good.

Don't know I'm stuck.

Which event triggers when you go back to a window which never closed but had a new window opened on top? That could help too, I tried gotFocus and Activated and gotFocus doesn't seem to work and activated only triggers the first time you open the window.

thanks for your help

[nacho2]

ok got it, i used vars and functions as public shared and that solved my problem.