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hhuntman	23 May, 2008 - 08:45 AM Post #1
New D.I.C Head Joined: 23 May, 2008 Posts: 2	How can I change the properties of controls on another form. For example, with a label control on Form 1, how can I change its text property from Form 2?
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Martyr2	RE: In C# 2005, .Net 2.0, 23 May, 2008 - 12:34 PM Post #2
Programming Theoretician Joined: 18 Apr, 2007 Posts: 5,173 Thanked: 208 times Expert In: C/C++, Java, VB, VB.NET, C#, PHP, Web Development, HTML & CSS, Javascript My Contributions	Well remember that controls are private members of a form class. So to get access to them you either have to set them up as public or expose them through a property. There are advantages to both methods and it will depend on your design as to which way you want to go with it. If you just want to make them public, then select the control on the second form and go to the properties window to "Modifiers" and change it from private to public. Then back on form1 you will have access to the label on form2. Enjoy!
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djkitt	RE: In C# 2005, .Net 2.0, 23 May, 2008 - 01:01 PM Post #3
D.I.C Head Joined: 22 May, 2008 Posts: 128 Thanked: 13 times My Contributions	If you want to access Form1 from Form2 then set the label on Form1 as public (or make a property or a public method) and when you create your Form2 instance set its Owner property to Form1... CODE //Assuming you have made Label1 public in Form1... //In Form1 Form2 f2 = new Form2() f2.Owner = this; // 'this' would be Form1 f2.ShowDialog(); //In Form2 ((Form1) f2.Owner).Label1.Text = "Some Text"; This post has been edited by djkitt: 23 May, 2008 - 01:03 PM
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hhuntman	RE: In C# 2005, .Net 2.0, 27 May, 2008 - 11:58 AM Post #4
New D.I.C Head Joined: 23 May, 2008 Posts: 2	QUOTE(djkitt @ 23 May, 2008 - 02:01 PM) If you want to access Form1 from Form2 then set the label on Form1 as public (or make a property or a public method) and when you create your Form2 instance set its Owner property to Form1... CODE //Assuming you have made Label1 public in Form1... //In Form1 Form2 f2 = new Form2() f2.Owner = this; // 'this' would be Form1 f2.ShowDialog(); //In Form2 ((Form1) f2.Owner).Label1.Text = "Some Text";
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