Accessing Controls From a Class

Question

How do access and alter a forms label from a sperate class. Say I want to change the label's text when someone clicks on the form but the code for it will be in a function in a differnt class other than the Form.cs. Please Help!!!

akbhattacharya · Answer

Hi abhro18 Add amodule and declare all your classe and forms in that. Make all of them public... guess it will work. refer my previous post: http://216.26.160.137/Forums/AspNetForums20/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=8304 -Baan

Yoav · Answer

Maybe you can expose the AddRange method of the contols datamember. Then initialize a label or any other control add it to the form with the AddRange method and invoke the paint event. But I'm not sure if that will work.

axb924 · Answer

Well yes you did answer my question but I guess I was expecting a more general reply. In specific how would I add a lable say from another class into my form. I figured you would have to declare an instance of the form but I keep getting an error doing that.

Yoav · Answer

You can expose the Text property of the label and then use it. public class myForm: System.Windows.Forms.Form { private System.Windows.Forms.Label label1; public string Label1 { set { this.label1.Text = value; } } } public class AnotherClass { public AnotherClass() { myForm frm = new myForm(); frm.Label1 = My text; } } Is this what you mean?