Accessing Form's Controls from another class
EDIT: Lot of edit.
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
// Static form. Null if no form created yet.
private static Form1 form = null;
private delegate void EnableDelegate(bool enable);
public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
form = this;
}
// Static method, call the non-static version if the form exist.
public static void EnableStaticTextBox(bool enable)
{
if (form != null)
form.EnableTextBox(enable);
}
private void EnableTextBox(bool enable)
{
// If this returns true, it means it was called from an external thread.
if (InvokeRequired)
{
// Create a delegate of this method and let the form run it.
this.Invoke(new EnableDelegate(EnableTextBox), new object[] { enable });
return; // Important
}
// Set textBox
textBox1.Enabled = enable;
}
}
This is just another method:
TextBox t = Application.OpenForms["Form1"].Controls["textBox1"] as TextBox;
You could let your class1 have an event to enable the Textbox.
public class Class1
{
public event Action<object, EventArgs> subscribe ;
private void raiseEvent()
{
var handler = subscribe ;
if(handler!=null)
{
handler(this,EventArgs.Empty);//Raise the enable event.
}
}
}
Let the class containing the TextBox subscribe to it somehow. In TextBox wrapper class
public class TextBoxWrapper
public void EnablePropertyNotification(object sender, EventArgs args)
{
TextBox1.Enabled = true ; //Enables textbox when event is raised.
}
public TextBoxWrapper()
{
class1Instance.subscribe+=EnablePropertyNotification ;
}