Reference to a control

[ToniMontana]

Hi all,

 

I want to change a set of similar controls in a form.

How can I create a reference (like a C-pointer)

to switch from one control to the next?

 

Or do I have to organize them as a control-array?

 

How can I do that, what is the best way?

[CattleRustler]

you may want to use For-Each loop, with a looper object of the same type

 

Dim oTB as textbox

For Each otb in <wherever>

...do something with oTB.~~~

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[ToniMontana]

Hi,

 

thank you for the reply, but this will not solve the

problem. Imagine you have many different controls

in a form and some textBoxes too, lets say 10.

And let us assume that 5 of these textBoxes

belog to a group and only these 5 must be changed

in a particular way. How can I do this without

having to write:

 

switch(textboxName)

{

case "T1":

t1.Text = "Hello";

break;

 

....

}

 

How can I do that with a textBox-Array??

I really dont know, I am a noob...

I know from VB that it creates an array if

you copy&paste a control. Is this the same

in Visual-Studio for C# ?

[PlausiblyDamp]

Would the 5 that need to be changed be physically close to each other on the form? If so you could put them in a panel and do a for ... each over the panels controls.

 

Although the designer doesn't support the creation of control ararys like VB6 did you can still create the arrays in code yourself...

[mocella]

Like PlausiblyDamp said, just create your own array of TextBoxes and add the appropriate members. It should look something like this

 

Dim boxArray(4) as textbox

boxArray(0) = someTextBoxControlInstance
...
boxArray(4) = anotherTextBoxControlInstance

Dim oTB as textbox
For Each otb in boxArray
...do something with oTB.~~~
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