[TomTheBeast]

Hey, well I've ran into a problem; which is probably a simple fix.
I have a thread running in the background checking things, etc.
The output is this:

Cross-thread operation not valid: Control 'comboBox1' accessed from a thread other than the thread it was created on.

The code is:

if (comboBox1.Text != "")
            {
                if (Race != comboBox1.Text) { return; }
            }

Obviously, ComboBox1 wasn't created on the thread I'm running the check on, is there anyway I can check ComboBox1's text across threads?
Note: This is on 7 different occasions, occurring with 5 ComboBox's, 1 TextBox, and a ListView.
Note 2: I've been told that I need to invoke my form, how would I go about doing this? I've never even heard of invoking a entire form.

[tlhIn`toq]

I think you have more of a design issue going than you think.
You should NOT be polling at all. Why do you need a thread checking the state of things? Those things will raise an event when they change. That's what you care about. Instead of polling the status of the combobox, react to the .SelectedItemChanged event.

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This post has been edited by tlhIn`toq: 12 October 2012 - 06:40 PM