Access a Control by its name as a string

[Mahmoud Al-Qudsi]

I have a list of strings that refer to various controls on a form.
They're not all the same type, they are all unique.

How can I say

(Control)StringList[0].text = "mytext"

Basically, set the `text` property for the winforms control named
'StringList[0]' to "mytext"

[Ludwig]

On 17 May 2007 13:17:55 -0700, Mahmoud Al-Qudsi <mq****@gmail.com>
wrote:

>I have a list of strings that refer to various controls on a form.
They're not all the same type, they are all unique.

How can I say

(Control)StringList[0].text = "mytext"

Basically, set the `text` property for the winforms control named
'StringList[0]' to "mytext"

First, get a PropertyInfo object:

Type type = StringList[0].GetType();
PropertyInfo textProperty = type.GetProperty("Text");

Then set its value:

textProperty.Setvalue(StringList[0], "myText", null);

--
Ludwig
http://www.coders-lab.be

[Ludwig]

On Thu, 17 May 2007 20:25:54 GMT, Ludwig
<ludwig.stuyck(remove)@telenet.bewrote:

>On 17 May 2007 13:17:55 -0700, Mahmoud Al-Qudsi <mq****@gmail.com>
wrote:

>>I have a list of strings that refer to various controls on a form.
They're not all the same type, they are all unique.

How can I say

(Control)StringList[0].text = "mytext"

Basically, set the `text` property for the winforms control named
'StringList[0]' to "mytext"

First, get a PropertyInfo object:

Type type = StringList[0].GetType();
PropertyInfo textProperty = type.GetProperty("Text");

Then set its value:

textProperty.Setvalue(StringList[0], "myText", null);

Sorry, it seems that you have a list of strings, not of controls.
Thereforen of course, you first have to get the control by their name.

You could therefore build a hashtable of all your controls at startup,
with the name as the key of the hashtable; and then you can access
them easily by name using the hashtable.

--
Ludwig
http://www.coders-lab.be

[Mahmoud Al-Qudsi]

On May 17, 11:30 pm, Ludwig <ludwig.stuyck(remove)@telenet.bewrote:

Sorry, it seems that you have a list of strings, not of controls.
Thereforen of course, you first have to get the control by their name.

You could therefore build a hashtable of all your controls at startup,
with the name as the key of the hashtable; and then you can access
them easily by name using the hashtable.

Thanks.
I was pretty much wondering if such a table was already more or less
existing.

I'm currently iterating through all the controls and checking if the
string is a match to the name. Very inefficient, needless to say.

[Ludwig]

On 17 May 2007 13:36:11 -0700, Mahmoud Al-Qudsi <mq****@gmail.com>
wrote:

>On May 17, 11:30 pm, Ludwig <ludwig.stuyck(remove)@telenet.bewrote:

>Sorry, it seems that you have a list of strings, not of controls.
Thereforen of course, you first have to get the control by their name.

You could therefore build a hashtable of all your controls at startup,
with the name as the key of the hashtable; and then you can access
them easily by name using the hashtable.

Thanks.
I was pretty much wondering if such a table was already more or less
existing.

I'm currently iterating through all the controls and checking if the
string is a match to the name. Very inefficient, needless to say.

Well you only have to do it once.... I don't think there exists a
method like GetControlByName()...

--
Ludwig
http://www.coders-lab.be

[Mahmoud Al-Qudsi]

On May 17, 11:36 pm, Mahmoud Al-Qudsi <[e-mail]:

On May 17, 11:30 pm, Ludwig <ludwig.stuyck(remove)@telenet.bewrote:

Sorry, it seems that you have a list of strings, not of controls.
Thereforen of course, you first have to get the control by their name.

You could therefore build a hashtable of all your controls at startup,
with the name as the key of the hashtable; and then you can access
them easily by name using the hashtable.

Thanks.
I was pretty much wondering if such a table was already more or less
existing.

I'm currently iterating through all the controls and checking if the
string is a match to the name. Very inefficient, needless to say.

Would the getControls() method work? I'm not clear on exactly what it
does.

[Ludwig]

On 17 May 2007 13:43:21 -0700, Mahmoud Al-Qudsi <mq****@gmail.com>
wrote:

>On May 17, 11:36 pm, Mahmoud Al-Qudsi <[e-mail]:

>On May 17, 11:30 pm, Ludwig <ludwig.stuyck(remove)@telenet.bewrote:

Sorry, it seems that you have a list of strings, not of controls.
Thereforen of course, you first have to get the control by their name.

You could therefore build a hashtable of all your controls at startup,
with the name as the key of the hashtable; and then you can access
them easily by name using the hashtable.

Thanks.
I was pretty much wondering if such a table was already more or less
existing.

I'm currently iterating through all the controls and checking if the
string is a match to the name. Very inefficient, needless to say.

Would the getControls() method work? I'm not clear on exactly what it
does.

GetControls method? Which method is that?

--
Ludwig
http://www.coders-lab.be

[Peter Duniho]

On Thu, 17 May 2007 13:17:55 -0700, Mahmoud Al-Qudsi <mq****@gmail.com
wrote:

How can I say

(Control)StringList[0].text = "mytext"

Assuming your form is called "form1":

form1.Controls[StringList[0]].Text = "mytext";

You can also use the ControlCollection.Find() method, but I have to admit
that I'm not completely clear on what additional functionality it offers,
if any, over using the ControlCollection.Item property (which is what the
above syntax is doing). So I will avoid making any comments about it. :)

Pete