This is probably a silly question to ask here, but I need to be able to pass variables between forms. What I mean is, for example, you open a form that asks for a URL and after you hit the OK button, the function that called it can use the URL.

I can use a global variable to accomplish this, but I'm sure there must be a way to do it more elegantly. I know how to do this sort of thing in MFC, but I'm fairly new to .NET programming in VC++ 2005.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
Johan Cyprich

Create a public property called URL. On OK save the entered URL to the property. Set your OK button to DialogResults.OK.

Create a public property called URL. On OK save the entered URL to the property. Set your OK button to DialogResults.OK.

Lets say you have two forms Form1 and Form2

The example is in C#-you should be able to port it to C++

public class Form1 : Form

{

public Form1()

{

InitializeComponent();

...

...

}

public string GetUrl()

{

Form2 f = new Form2();

DialogResult result = f.ShowDialog(this);

if(result == DialogResult.OK)

{

//Get Url from Form2

return f.Url;//Retrieve the URL here

}

}

}

public class Form2 : Form

{

private string url;

public Form1()

{

InitializeComponent();

...

...

}

public string Url

{

get

{

//Get the value

return m_url;

}

set

{

//May be gets saved when the user clicks an OK Button

m_url = value;

}

}

}

If your not using a modal form then you can provide the notification by using an event instead of the DialogResult from the show modal call. Just add a standard event to your form as a public property and then fire this when your form is finished. The original form can hook into this event before showing and so be notified when the action is complete.

Phil Wright
http://www.componentfactory.com
Free user interface controls for VS2005

Johan,

is your question answered and you are able to pass variables between forms?

Hi Andreas. I'm going to try these solutions tonight. I've been too busy at work to do anything else this week. I'm working on application with multiple forms that need to pass variables to other forms.

I'll post my solution if it works. :)

I finally was able to use a variable from another form.

As a test, I created a form that had a text box (named txtForm1_URL) and a button. When the button was pressed, it would open a form (frmEnterURL) requesting the user to enter a URL. On that form, there was a text box (txtURL) for entering the URLand anOK (btnOK) and Cancel (btnCancel) button.

I created a property on frmEnterURL for storing the value entered:

public:
property String ^URL;

I wrote two events for it:

System::Void btnOK_Click(System::Object^ sender, System::EventArgs^ e)
{
URL = txtURL->Text;
}

System::Void btnCancel_Click(System::Object^ sender, System::EventArgs^ e)
{
URL = "";
}

I had to set the URL="" for the Cancel button because it was saving the txtURL->Text value to URL when Cancel was pressed. I don't know why it would do that.

Back to the main form, I was able to set the txtForm1_URL->Text valueby reading the property in frmEnterURL.

frmEnterURL ^box = gcnew frmEnterURL ();

box->ShowDialog ();

if (box->URL != "")
txtForm1_URL->Text = box->URL;

I hope my code makes sense here. I'd like to thank everyone for their help. I'd like to try Philip Wright's solution since it is a different approach from the others.