Question

I am creating a

System.Timers.Timer aTimer = new System.Timers.Timer();

and want to access the main form, or Form1 from the

private static void OnTimedEvent(object source, ElapsedEventArgs e)
    {...}

event, how do I do this? I can’t find an example online, via google, that does this. I am drawing some graphics and want to change them when the timer event fires. I can’t use the form timer as I want to port this code to something else and it won’t be available.

Thanks

Answer 1

I don’t like the following code very much, but if you cannot find another way of getting a reference to your Form1 instance into the event handler, you could try it via Application.OpenForms:

// using System.Linq;
// using System.Windows.Forms; 

Form1 mainForm = Application.OpenForms.OfType<Form1>().SingleOrDefault();