Any One Can Help Why I do not get the current time in my string

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I have a public class that I store my two variables one for current time as string "tx" and the other for timer class "myT" as follow:

C#

public static class MainVariables
    {

        private static string  _tx = "";
        public static string tx
        {
            get { return MainVariables ._tx; }
            set { MainVariables ._tx = value; }
        }
        private static System.Windows.Forms.Timer _myT =
                new System .Windows .Forms .Timer();
        public static System .Windows .Forms .Timer myT
        {
            get { return MainVariables ._myT; }
            set { MainVariables ._myT = value; }
        }


    }

after initializing windows component i have a method that initialize my components called "myInitialize" as follow:

C#

public MainWindow()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
            myInitialize();
        }

in my initialize method I have the following code:

C#

private void myInitialize()
        {
            ShowMeTheTime();
}

and here is the ShowMeTheTime method:

C#

public void ShowMeTheTime()
        {
            MainVariables .myT .Enabled = true;
            MainVariables .myT .Interval = 500;
           
            MainVariables .myT .Tick += new EventHandler( ShoWTIME );
            MainVariables .myT .Start();

        }


        public void ShoWTIME( object obj , EventArgs e )
        {
            MainVariables .tx = string .Empty;
            MainVariables .tx = DateTime .Now .ToLongTimeString();
        }

So here is the question. Why my variable "MainVariables .tx " in "ShoWTIME" method
does not get any value when the timer tick?
However, if I raplace the "MainVariables .tx" with a textbox1.Text the text property of textbox1 get value and show me the current time every second?

Yours SIncerely

Posted 9-Jul-12 22:23pm

Mmohmmad

Updated 9-Jul-12 22:43pm

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Rahul Rajat Singh · Answer 1 · 2012-07-09T22:48:00

Solution 1

It is getting value. i tested it on my end.

check it as

C#

public void ShoWTIME(object obj, EventArgs e)
        {
            MainVariables.tx = string.Empty;
            MainVariables.tx = DateTime.Now.ToLongTimeString();
            Console.WriteLine(MainVariables.tx);
        }

and observer the output window in VS IDE. you will see the time is coming in the variable. the problem could be somewhere else.

Posted 9-Jul-12 22:48pm

Rahul Rajat Singh

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Mmohmmad 10-Jul-12 5:07am

IN console application you will get the result. However, build it in a WPF project you will see that the textbox1.text get value but the string value doesn't.

Rahul Rajat Singh 10-Jul-12 5:09am

YES i tested it on that only. I can still print console messages in windows applications too for debugging purposes.

Mmohmmad 10-Jul-12 5:24am

When I debug the program the string "tx" doesnot get value. I passed the "tx" value to a textbox and textbox does not show me the current time every .5secs.

Mmohmmad 10-Jul-12 5:31am

I think the way that I show the "tx" result is inappropariate. I want a class to show me the current time and in that class i set the value of the "tx" variable and in my second class i.e. the window class I want to show this time in a textbox.text. I think the problem is that the value of current time must show in a textbox of window class with "tx" variable. Am I right?