Windows Form Application Variable Question

This looks like C#.

Moving this to the .NET forum.

It's C++, but probably .NET constructs

I have a class called User. I want to make a User object called myUser that can be access able to both windows forms that i have create. I have main.cpp which calls the creation of the first form

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1. Application::Run(gcnew Form1());

but i can't seem to access the Form1 object it creates. I also tried making a User object in the forms but i got this error

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1.      private: User myUser;

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1.   error C4368: cannot define 'myUser' as a member of managed 'myProject::w_Name': mixed types are not supported 

How do i define variables in the visual c++ forms and execute functions outside of their headers.

Try

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1. private:
2.      User ^myUser;
3.  

Private: User *myUSer;

Worked thank you

If i wanted to access myUser in the main window of my application from the main function how would i do it?

That is declaring a native pointer, where as with ^ it is within the garbage collection.

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1. w_Name.h(36) : error C3699: '^' : cannot use this indirection on type 'User'
2.         compiler replacing '^' with '*' to continue parsing'

Will not let me use ^

How is User declared?

if the main form window is created using Application::Run(gcnew Form1()); Who would i run the function lets say myRandomFunction() in Form1.h from a different window or the

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1. int main(array<System::String ^> ^args)

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1. public ref class Form1
2. {
3. private:
4.    ...
5. public:
6.    Form1();
7.    myRandomFunction();
8. };
9.  

Declaring it like that should make it accessible else where.

A newbee here. Can you give an example of the code that would call myRandomFunction()? How do you get a reference to Form1 elsewhere, given that the form is gcnew'd directly to Run()? Thanks.

Dont gcnew it in the Run function, thats the only way that I know of. Although, someone might be able to extract it from the Application object.