using variables within 2 different methods

[ken4ward]

private void timerAlarm_Elapsed(object sender, System.Timers.ElapsedEventArgs e)
        {
            if (comboBoxItemsforAlarm.SelectedItem == null)
                stopWatch.Stop();
            else
            {
                int hours = stopWatch.Elapsed.Hours, minutes = stopWatch.Elapsed.Minutes;
                labelStopWatch.Text = hours + ".";
                if (minutes < 10)
                    labelStopWatch.Text += "0" + minutes;
                else
                    labelStopWatch.Text += minutes;
                double doubleStopWatch = Convert.ToDouble(labelStopWatch.Text);
                
            }
        }

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 private void btnAddTimer_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            if (comboBoxItemAlarm.Items.Count == 0 && maskedTime.Text == null)
            {
                MessageBox.Show("select an item");
            }
            else 
            {
                if (comboBoxItemAlarm.SelectedItem != null)
                {
                    comboBoxItemsforAlarm.Items.Add(comboBoxItemAlarm.SelectedItem + "-" + maskedTime.Text);
                }

                    string str = comboBoxItemAlarm.SelectedItem.ToString();
                    string[] into = str.Split('-');
                    double timeAllocated = Convert.ToDouble(into[1]);
                    double timeAlarm = Convert.ToDouble(maskedTime.Text);
                    if(timeAlarm > timeAllocated)
                    {
                        MessageBox.Show("eheheh");
                    }  
            }

        }

I want to use if statement for variables in these 2 methods, to compare the timeAlarm with the doubleStopWatch, because of their declaration scope, it seems imposible and if I declare it outside their method it will not pick the right argument, like this:

if(timeAlarm==doubleStopWatch)
//do something

[TomasRiker]

What do you mean with "it will not pick the right argument"?

[ken4ward]

Thanks. It's may be a mis-use of language. What I mean is if I declare them outside the the methods they are now, I'll not be able to assign value to them. Thanks.

[TomasRiker]

But you should be able to do so.
There's no reason why you couldn't do that.