Getting a string from another form

Hi guys,

I have a program that i'm writing that does the following:

Code:

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private void buttonclick( blah blah blah)
{
      Form f=new myForm();
      f.Show();
}

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now once this new form opens i want the user to input some data, not too hard so far. But my problem is how do i get that data back into the main form?
would i use something like

Code:

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  return myData;

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i've tried that but it never seems to work
any help is greatly appreciated.

One solution is an event. Invocate an event and pass the new data as an argument.

Kuphryn

how exactly would i do that?

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Kuphryn

Create a property for your input form with the datatype you want to get. Then read that property if the form was closed successfully.

Code:

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private void buttonclick( blah blah blah)
{
        Form f = new myForm();

        if( f.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK )
        {
                yourvalueinthisformwhereyouneedit = f.YourProperty;
        }
}

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