How to reference a button

[Louis777]

I am using VS2005 and C#

I have 10 asp buttons called Page1, Page2, Page3, ..., Page10
<asp:button id="Page1" runat="server" onClick="Page1_Click" text="1""></asp:button>
<asp:button id="Page2" runat="server" onClick="Page2_Click" text="2""></asp:button>
<asp:button id="Page3" runat="server" onClick="Page3_Click" text="3""></asp:button>
.
.
.
<asp:button id="Page10" runat="server" onClick="Page10_Click" text="10""></asp:button>

I am trying to write a for loop like the following to disable all the buttons:

for (int i=1; i <= 10, ++i)
{
Page[i].Enabled = false; //This where I need help (how can this be done?)
}

Thanks in advance,

Louis

[RedSon]

I am using VS2005 and C#

I have 10 asp buttons called Page1, Page2, Page3, ..., Page10
<asp:button id="Page1" runat="server" onClick="Page1_Click" text="1""></asp:button>
<asp:button id="Page2" runat="server" onClick="Page2_Click" text="2""></asp:button>
<asp:button id="Page3" runat="server" onClick="Page3_Click" text="3""></asp:button>
.
.
.
<asp:button id="Page10" runat="server" onClick="Page10_Click" text="10""></asp:button>

I am trying to write a for loop like the following to disable all the buttons:

for (int i=1; i <= 10, ++i)
{
Page[i].Enabled = false; //This where I need help (how can this be done?)
}

Thanks in advance,

Louis

you need to do something like storing the button id in the array. Then when you access the element of the array by doing array[i] you will be getting the button id. Then you have to somehow call Enabled = false using that button id. Not sure how to do that.

[Louis777]

you need to do something like storing the button id in the array. Then when you access the element of the array by doing array[i] you will be getting the button id. Then you have to somehow call Enabled = false using that button id. Not sure how to do that.

The later is what I am looking for, I wonder if it can be done something like:

Object.Parce("Page"+i.ToString()).Enabled = false;

What do you think, is there something to that effect?

Thanks for your response,

Louis

[RedSon]

The later is what I am looking for, I wonder if it can be done something like:

Object.Parce("Page"+i.ToString()).Enabled = false;

What do you think, is there something to that effect?

Thanks for your response,

Louis

Well what does Parce do? does it take a string argument? It looks like what you have would work.

[Plater]

All controls have a .FindControl(string) that allows you to search it's children for an object with the same name as the given string.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...ndcontrol.aspx

I believe there is an overload telling it to search it's children's children for the object too, but if not, be aware that you might have to do that.

[Louis777]

Well what does Parce do? does it take a string argument? It looks like what you have would work.

No, Object.Parce does not work, I get an error saying that Object does not contain definition parce.

[Louis777]

All controls have a .FindControl(string) that allows you to search it's children for an object with the same name as the given string.
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...ndcontrol.aspx

I believe there is an overload telling it to search it's children's children for the object too, but if not, be aware that you might have to do that.

Thanks Plater, this works:

Button cntrl = null;
for (int i = 1; i <= pagecount; i++) 
{
     cntrl = (Button)FindControl("Page" + i.ToString());
     cntrl.Visible = true;
}