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Old October 16th, 2007, 10:10 AM
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Default Getting all listbox items

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I have two forms. Both forms have a listbox. When form2 is opened by clicking a button I want the same items that are shown in the listbox on form1 to show in the listbox in form2. I know that to add a selected item from the listbox on form1 the following is used in the class of form1:

public string Items
{
get
{
return listBox2.SelectedItem.ToString();
}
}

In the form2 load event the following code is used:

public Form1 mainForm;

textBox1.Text = mainForm.Items;

But How do I get ALL items from the listbox to appear in the listbox in form2?

Lucy
 
Old December 1st, 2009, 05:25 AM
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because in C# you can't access to other Forms' Controls, but we know that static Members are accessible throw other classes. so you should define a static variable in first form to store items in it like this:

Code:
public static List<string> myList = new List<string>();
and somewhere else you should store data of listbox into this variable:

Code:
for(int i = 0; i < ListBox1.Items.Count; i++)
   myList.Add(ListBox1.Items[i].ToString());
and in second form you can access this variable

Code:
for(int i = 0; i < Form1.myList.Length; i++)
   ListBox2.Items.Add(Form1.myList[i]);
 
Old December 1st, 2009, 05:36 AM
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Your replying to 2 year old posts again...

Oh, and by default you can't access another forms controls, but you can change that easily by editing the Modifiers property and setting it to public.

Your solution of using a static variable would not work if there were more than one copy of the first form as well.
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