"droll" <droll@invalid.com> wrote in message
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>i must be doing something fundamentally wrong.
>
> i have a main form class in which i declare a
> public int testvar;
>
> i have another class i created. this class is in the same namespace as the
> main form class. however, i cannot access 'testvar' from this class. it
> doesn't show up in intellisense. if i declare an enum in the main form
> class, it does show up.
>
> ????? what am i doing wrong? :(
>

On Sat, 31 Dec 2005 14:52:00 +0800, "droll" <droll@invalid.com> wrote:

>i must be doing something fundamentally wrong.
>
>i have a main form class in which i declare a
>public int testvar;
>
>i have another class i created. this class is in the same namespace as the
>main form class. however, i cannot access 'testvar' from this class. it
>doesn't show up in intellisense. if i declare an enum in the main form
>class, it does show up.
>
>????? what am i doing wrong? :(
>

> Hmm - apologies if this is a mistake you'd never make, but could you
> be trying to access an instance variable via the type name of your
> form class, instead of via an instance of the form?
>
> That is, if your main forms (class) name is MainForm, and you have a
>
> public int testvar;
>
> in there, you cannot access it from within another form or class via
>
> int v = MainForm.testvar;
>
> For this to work, you'd need to make testvar static, like so:
>
> static public int testvar;
>
> The consequence of this is that this variable is common to all
> instances of your form (that is, if you want to open several windows
> of this same type) - probably less likely under the CF than under the
> full framework.
>
> Regards,
> Gilles [MVP].
>
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