How to change text in a textbox on another form in Visual C#?

Question

In Visual C# when I click a button, I want to load another form. But before that form loads, I want to fill the textboxes with some text. I tried to put some commands to d

Answer 1

I know this was long time ago, but seems to be a pretty popular subject with many duplicate questions. Now I had a similar situation where I had a class that was called from other classes with many separate threads and I had to update one specific form from all these other threads. So creating a delegate event handler was the answer.

The solution that worked for me:

1. I created an event in the class I wanted to do the update on another form. (First of course I instantiated the form (called SubAsstToolTipWindow) in the class.)

2. Then I used this event (ToolTipShow) to create an event handler on the form I wanted to update the label on. Worked like a charm.

I used this description to devise my own code below in the class that does the update:

public static class SubAsstToolTip
{
    private static SubAsstToolTipWindow ttip = new SubAsstToolTipWindow();
    public delegate void ToolTipShowEventHandler();
    public static event ToolTipShowEventHandler ToolTipShow;

    public static void Show()
    {
        // This is a static boolean that I set here but is accessible from the form.
        Vars.MyToolTipIsOn = true; 
        if (ToolTipShow != null)
        {
            ToolTipShow();
        }
    }

    public static void Hide()
    {
        // This is a static boolean that I set here but is accessible from the form.
        Vars.MyToolTipIsOn = false;
        if (ToolTipShow != null)
        {
            ToolTipShow();
        }
    }
}

Then the code in my form that was updated:

public partial class SubAsstToolTipWindow : Form
{
    public SubAsstToolTipWindow()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
        // Right after initializing create the event handler that 
        // traps the event in the class
        SubAsstToolTip.ToolTipShow += SubAsstToolTip_ToolTipShow;
    }

    private void SubAsstToolTip_ToolTipShow()
    {
        if (Vars.MyToolTipIsOn) // This boolean is a static one that I set in the other class.
        {
            // Call other private method on the form or do whatever
            ShowToolTip(Vars.MyToolTipText, Vars.MyToolTipX, Vars.MyToolTipY);     
        }
        else
        {
            HideToolTip();
        }

    }

I hope this helps many of you still running into the same situation.