[Googler20]

Hello I am working on a program, and I would like to have the program pass a name from on form to another.

This is my code :

form 1 :

 Public Class Form1

    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click   
        Me.Hide()
        Form2.Show()      'to open next form 

    End Sub
End Class

form 2 :

 Public Class Form2

    
    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        TextBox1.Text = Form1.TextBox1.Text   'so the name put into textbox1 on form 1 will transfer to form 2's textbox 1
        Me.Hide()
        Form3.Show()
    End Sub

End Class 

This is what I have tried. I want what is put into textbox1 (by the user) to transfer to form 2 with the click of the button. But it does not transfer. There are no errors, but in form 2 my textbox is empty.

Any suggestions on what I am doing wrong?

Thanks

[lordofduct]

Here is an MSDN article on it:
http://msdn.microsof...5(v=vs.80).aspx

there are also many tutorials in the tutorial section of DIC that cover it as well.

[modi123_1]

Have you tried exposing your form2's text property as a property of the form?

What I mean is

form2:

public property User
get
return TextBox1.Text
set (byval value string)
TextBox1.Text = value
end property

Then in form1 right before you do "Form2.Show()" do a

form2.User = form1's textbox

You could also just make the control exposed, but meh - that's not fun.

[minalira143]

Googler20, on 12 April 2011 - 10:17 AM, said:

Hello I am working on a program, and I would like to have the program pass a name from on form to another.

This is my code :

form 1 :

 Public Class Form1

    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click   
        Me.Hide()
        Form2.Show()      'to open next form 

    End Sub
End Class

form 2 :

 Public Class Form2

    
    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        TextBox1.Text = Form1.TextBox1.Text   'so the name put into textbox1 on form 1 will transfer to form 2's textbox 1
        Me.Hide()
        Form3.Show()
    End Sub

End Class 

This is what I have tried. I want what is put into textbox1 (by the user) to transfer to form 2 with the click of the button. But it does not transfer. There are no errors, but in form 2 my textbox is empty.

Any suggestions on what I am doing wrong?

Thanks

There's nothing wrong in your code. When you press the button of form1, the form2 will appear, and if you press the form2's button, form2 will copy the form1.textbox1's text,
to fomr2.textbox2. and then form2 will me come hide.
It is how I understand your code if we'll just base on the given code.

Try first to delete the statement that will hide the form and see what will happen.

I hope this will help.

[CharlieMay]

What you have should work since you're using the default instance so my question is, did you actually type anything into the textbox on form1 when testing this?

[Googler20]

I do not want to have to push the button on form 2 for the textbox1 to display form 1's textbox1, I would like as soon as form 2 opens for the name to be visible already.

minalira143, on 12 April 2011 - 10:45 AM, said:

Googler20, on 12 April 2011 - 10:17 AM, said:

Hello I am working on a program, and I would like to have the program pass a name from on form to another.

This is my code :

form 1 :

 Public Class Form1

    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click   
        Me.Hide()
        Form2.Show()      'to open next form 

    End Sub
End Class

form 2 :

 Public Class Form2

    
    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        TextBox1.Text = Form1.TextBox1.Text   'so the name put into textbox1 on form 1 will transfer to form 2's textbox 1
        Me.Hide()
        Form3.Show()
    End Sub

End Class 

This is what I have tried. I want what is put into textbox1 (by the user) to transfer to form 2 with the click of the button. But it does not transfer. There are no errors, but in form 2 my textbox is empty.

Any suggestions on what I am doing wrong?

Thanks

There's nothing wrong in your code. When you press the button of form1, the form2 will appear, and if you press the form2's button, form2 will copy the form1.textbox1's text,
to fomr2.textbox2. and then form2 will me come hide.
It is how I understand your code if we'll just base on the given code.

Try first to delete the statement that will hide the form and see what will happen.

I hope this will help.

CharlieMay, on 12 April 2011 - 11:07 AM, said:

What you have should work since you're using the default instance so my question is, did you actually type anything into the textbox on form1 when testing this?

Yes I am entering something into textbox on form1, I am entering a name, but it does not appear onto form2.

[CharlieMay]

Try this

    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click   
        Me.Hide()
        Form2.TextBox1.Text = Me.TextBox1.Text '<--- Added this line
        Form2.Show()      'to open next form 
    End Sub

[minalira143]

Why don't you try to put you event in form2.Load?

try this one, put this in form2.Load event

Private Sub Form2_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
     TextBox1.Text = Form1.TextBox1.Text 
End Sub

If you want to put the value of textbox in form1 to form2 automatically. Just double click the form2 to view it's Load event. I hope it will help.

[modi123_1]

Yes or add a parametrized constructor.