Question

I’ve got my windows form Main.cs and and my windows form Options.cs. Inside my Main.cs I’ve defined a class called “Player” and I’ve instantiated it there.

From my Options form I’d like to be able to access the methods and properties of the Player object I created in the Main.cs form. Visual Studio 2010 tells me “The name “Player1” does not exist in the current context.

What I think is weird and what is adding to my confusion is the fact that I can “see” static methods for my Player class from the Options.cs form.

Thank you in advance!

EDIT:

Inside Main.cs:

Player Player1 = new Player("Player 1", "X");
Player Player2 = new Player("Player 2", "O");

…

public class Player
{
    public static bool Turn { get; set; }
    public static int TotalGames { get; set; }

    public string Name { get; set; }
    public string Icon { get; set; }

    public static void ToggleTurn()
    {
        Turn = !Turn;
    }

    public Player(string name, string icon)
    {
        Name = name;
        Icon = icon;
    }

}

Inside Options.cs:

private void Options_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    SetCheckboxesToPlayerTurn();
    txtPlayer1Name.Text = Player1.Name; //HERE IS WHAT I WANT :(
}

Answer 1

You need to somehow get a reference to your Player object from the Options form.

Change this line:

Player Player1 = new Player("Player 1", "X");

to

public Player Player1 = new Player("Player 1", "X");

and move it outside of the constructor (if that’s where it is).
Then create a constructor in Options which accepts an instance of the Main, like this:

private Main main;
public Options(Main main)
{
  this.main=main;
}

Now, instead of creating Options with it’s default constructor from Main, use(still in Main):

Options o = new Options(this);

You should now be able to reference your Players from Options using:

string name = this.main.Player1.Name