I have a GUI-thread for my form and another thread that computes things.
The form has a richtTextBox. I want the worker-thread to pass strings to the form, so that every string is displayed in the textbox.
Everytime a new string is generated in the worker thread I call an event, and this should now display the string. But I don't know how to pass the string! This is what I tried so far:
///// Form1
private void btn_myClass_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
myClass myObj = new myClass();
myObj.NewListEntry += myObj_NewListEntry;
Thread thrmyClass = new Thread(new ThreadStart(myObj.ThreadMethod));
thrmyClass.Start();
}
private void myObj_NewListEntry(Object objSender, EventArgs e)
{
this.BeginInvoke((MethodInvoker)delegate
{
// Here I want to add my string from the worker-thread to the textbox!
richTextBox1.Text += "TEXT"; // I want: richTextBox1.Text += myStringFromWorkerThread;
});
}
///// myClass (working thread...)
class myClass
{
public event EventHandler NewListEntry;
public void ThreadMethod()
{
DoSomething();
}
protected virtual void OnNewListEntry(EventArgs e)
{
EventHandler newListEntry = NewListEntry;
if (newListEntry != null)
{
newListEntry(this, e);
}
}
private void DoSomething()
{
///// Do some things and generate strings, such as "test"...
string test = "test";
// Here I want to pass the "test"-string! But how to do that??
OnNewListEntry(EventArgs.Empty); // I want: OnNewListEntry(test);
}
}
Like this
public class NewListEntryEventArgs : EventArgs
{
private readonly string test;
public NewListEntryEventArgs(string test)
{
this.test = test;
}
public string Test
{
get { return this.test; }
}
}
then you declare your class like this
class MyClass
{
public delegate void NewListEntryEventHandler(
object sender,
NewListEntryEventArgs args);
public event NewListEntryEventHandler NewListEntry;
protected virtual void OnNewListEntry(string test)
{
if (NewListEntry != null)
{
NewListEntry(this, new NewListEntryEventArgs(test));
}
}
}
and in the subscribing Form
private void btn_myClass_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
MyClass myClass = new MyClass();
myClass.NewListEntry += NewListEntryEventHandler;
...
}
private void NewListEntryEventHandler(
object sender,
NewListEntryEventArgs e)
{
if (richTextBox1.InvokeRequired)
{
this.Invoke((MethodInvoker)delegate
{
this.NewListEntryEventHandler(sender, e);
});
return;
}
richTextBox1.Text += e.Test;
}
I've taken the liberty of making the NewListEntryEventArgs
class immutable, since that makes sense. I've also partially corrected your naming conventions, simplified and corrected where expedient.