New to C# (Really) Hide / show form that has already been loaded?

[RyanJones]

Hi all.

 

I am new to C# (2 days learning) and I seen to have a problem. I have a form named frmMain that is the form initally loaded (starting form). How can I hide and show this from from another class?

 

Do I need to use an object variable or is there another way to do this? (Have tried frmMain.Show() and frmMain.Hide() but they do not work).

 

Thanks for the help,

 

Ryan Jones

[Cags]

You can only access objects that are currently in scope. If you are using your frmMain to create for example a frmOptions, unless you pass frmOptions a reference (or store a static reference). There have been quite a few questions like this on the forum so a search should turn up a result. As a starting point if you setup the additional form to accept frmMain as a parameter, you can then store a local reference allowing you to Show() and Hide() the form whenever you want.

[snarfblam]

Try this tutorial. The code is in VB, but the concepts are applicable.

[RyanJones]

Thanks for the hell all!

 

I shall read the example tomorow :-)

 

Cheers,

 

Ryan Jones