How to modify properties of winforms objects at runtime? (C++/CLI)

Hypothetical:

There is a text box with the default value of "test" (this->textBox1->Text = L"test";) and, at runtime, the value of the text property is set to "modified" by a statement in main().

The cold, hard truth:

This doesn't seem to be possible because the object is private. Also there is a co开发者_JAVA百科mment in the form header that says it's a dumb idea to modify things so making it public is impossible.

The questions:

• Am I going at this in the completely wrong way?

• What is the proper way to modify the properties of form objects at runtime?

• If, I were to use WPF would this avoid this confusion all together? It's not an option but i'm curious.

Thanks!

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Provide public wrapper methods in your derived form class that manipulate the form controls, and call them from the other classes.

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public ref class MyForm: Form
{
    //...
public:
    void SetTextOfTextBox1(System::String ^t)
    {
        this->textBox1->Text=t;
    }
}

And in "main":

 // ...
 MyForm ^f = gcnew MyForm();
 // ...
 f->SetTextOfTextBox1("modified");