timer and passing values to methods from timer event

Question

need some help trying to pass a value from a timer event

this is my timer event and method being called Mywords ()

_ourwordLength; is an instance variable that is returned by a method

am calling getlength ie int getlength(int _ourwordLength ){ return _ourwordLength; }

private static int _ourwordLength;

public void Timer_tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
Mywords(_ourwordLength);
}
The method am passing value to is below

public void Mywords( int length)
{

var ResourceStream = Application.GetResourceStream(new Uri("TextFile1.txt", UriKind.Relative));
using (Stream Myfilestream = ResourceStream.Stream)
{
string s = "";
StreamReader myStreamReader = new StreamReader(Myfilestream);
s = myStreamReader.ReadToEnd();
// string regExp;
if (length == 5)
{
MywordsLength();
}

The problem i have is once the value _ourwordLength is passed to the Timer event where am calling the mywords method its is not being passed to the

mywords method help on this plis

Vulpes · Answer

On the face of it the getlength method is accepting a parameter called _ourwordLength and then returning it without modifying it in any way. If you want to set the private static field _ourwordLength from another class I'd use this method instead: public static void setlength(int value) { _ourwordLength = value; }

solomon mwika · Answer

this is the method that is setting the _ourwordLength field public int getlength(int _ourwordLength ) { return _ourwordLength; } The method is called from another class where a user enters the value

Vulpes · Answer

Well the Timer_Tick handler will always call Mywords with the current value of the static field _ourworldLength. Initially this will have a default value of 0 unless it's being set to a different value somewhere in the code before the Timer is started. If _ourworldLength never changes between Tick events then I'd take a look at the code which sets it (not shown in your snippet). You might be declaring a local variable with the same name and setting that instead which is an easy mistake to make.