Updating a combobox outside the load method

Hi,

I'm writing a program where I have a combobox in a form. I can add items and determine its text in the form's load sub. But I can't do this afterwards. I use the combobox.items.add command and the combobox.text command but it doesn't change anything. Any ideas on how I can fix/get around this? Thanks.

are you trying to load the items from your existing form? or a different one?
maybe you can post how you are loading the items in the form's load sub. because you should have no trouble loading extra items after your load sub , unless something is upsetting it.

Thanks for replying. Actually the problem was that from a form I opened a second form. Then I tried to have the second form change some variables in the first form. The problem was the way I tried to access the first form from the second. What I did was something like this:


dim frm as new Form1
me.owner=frm 'The mistake was here
frm.variable=<new value>


I should have done this:


dim frm as new Form1
frm=me.owner
frm.variable=<new value>



Well, thanks for replying. Sorry if I confused anyone. I hope someone might at least be able to learn from my dumb mistake.

you may wish to change this line ...

frm = me.owner

to this ...

frm = DirectCast(Me.Owner , Form1)

because you will get errors if you turn Option Strict ON , due to late binding.

Thanks for the tip. While we're discussing it, could you please explain what Option Strict is all about? I'm still new at this.

this msdn link will probably explain it better :) ...msdn article on Option strict (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vblr7/html/vastmoptionstrict.asp)