Having trouble with C# form passing

Question

I'm currently trying to get into C#, after doing a ton of Java. I wanted to pass my GUI Form to another class, but I run into some trouble trying to access its containers etc. from there.

This is the autogenerated Form class:

namespace Wecker
{
    public partial class WeckerDesign : Form
    {
        public WeckerDesign()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            new WeckerRun(this);
        }
    }
}

and this is the recieving class:

namespace Wecker
{
    class WeckerRun
    {
        WeckerDesign wdesign = new WeckerDesign();

        public WeckerRun(WeckerDesign wdesign)
        {

            this.wdesign = wdesign;
            new DisplayClock(wdesign);
        }
    }
}

However, when I am trying to access the container "clockfield" from the recieving class, I can't find it. However, in the passing class, I can easily get there with this.clockpanel. ... and so on.

The recieving class won't even suggest me that. In Java, I would simply pass down my class as a whole with "this" in order to have the exact same reference in the other class, which I can treat as if I would do it in the original class where I got that object reference from.

How do I do this in C#?

Answer 1

How is your "clockpanel" field or property defined? It will need to be public to be accessible from outside the class.