[wuu]

Hi everybody!

I'm new to a C# and also to Visual Studio .NET, so please bear with me. I'm having a problem, despite reading this tutorial.
I have two forms in main form (Form1) I open a serial port for which data I want to get from the second form (Form2). In this form I select between COM1 and COM2 with a Radio button. So basically what I need to do Is pass string from Form2 to Form1 in to the method init_serial_port(string PORT) which is located in Form1. Also when I open a Form2 the right Radio button has to be set to true.
What I already coded:


Form1 Code:

		public Form1()
		{
			InitializeComponent();
		}

		public void init_serial_port(string PORT)
		{
			if (!(serialPort1.IsOpen))
			{
				serialPort1.PortName = PORT;
				serialPort1.BaudRate = 115200;
				serialPort1.Parity = System.IO.Ports.Parity.None;
				serialPort1.Handshake = System.IO.Ports.Handshake.None;
				serialPort1.DataBits = 8;
				serialPort1.StopBits = System.IO.Ports.StopBits.One;
				serialPort1.DataReceived += new SerialDataReceivedEventHandler(serialPort1_DataReceived);
				serialPort1.Open();
			}
		}

		private void selectCOMPortToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
		{
			Form2 COMS = new Form2();
			COMS.ShowDialog();
			COMS.Dispose();
		}

Form2 Code:

 
	public partial class Form2 : Form
	{
		string PORT = string.Empty;
		public Form2()
		{
			InitializeComponent();
		}

		private void ok_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
		{
			if (radioButton1.Checked)
			{
				PORT = "COM1";
			}
			else
			{
				PORT = "COM2";
			}
			Form1 glavni = new Form1(PORT);
			this.Close();
		}
	}

[SixOfEleven]

*EDITTED*

What you will want to do is make PORT a public variable in Form2 that will hold which port you selected

Then delete this from Form2

Form1 glavni = new Form1(PORT)

After you return from Form2 you can read the variable from Form2 in Form1 using:

yourVariable = Form2.PORT;

*added*

but do this before you dispose the form.

This post has been edited by SixOfEleven: 01 May 2009 - 01:03 PM

[wuu]

Thenks it works great. I also had to add static before

string PORT

[SixOfEleven]

wuu, on 1 May, 2009 - 12:40 PM, said:

Thenks it works great. I also had to add static before

string PORT

I know why you had to add static. I should have said:

youVariable = form2Name.PORT;

If you make something public static in a class, I believe you can access it the other way, using the class name.

This post has been edited by SixOfEleven: 02 May 2009 - 09:18 PM