vb.net array problem

[nnightwolf]

hello! i'm experiencing a problem with vb.net. here's the deal: i've created a simple array of buttons that when i click on them their text appears on a label. my question is how can i do the opposite: writing the one button's text in a textbox and then clicking ok(or enter) the program executes the button's code.
eg: 1st button's text asd1
2nd button's text asd2
3 button's text asd3
when i write in a textbox asd3 how can be executed the code of the 3rd button?(without rewriting the code as a case in the textbox)
thanks in advance

[Plater]

Pretty sure you're going to have to use a case statement.

There's a FindControl() (or Find() depending on what your application type is, which you forgot to specify) that allows you to find a control by it's ID. So you could probably work something out like that.

I never understand why people want to run a button by it's name

[nnightwolf]

ok here's the deal: i have an image with spots(little images of dots) on it. these images(spots) have a tag and by clicking on them a database is called by the tag (of the image) and shows the corresponding field of the database. while showing the fields, in the place of the clicked spot a label is showed in which appears the tag of the clicked spot. (all these are control by complexed arrays) what i want to do is to do the exact opposite: clicking the next button of the database and while a textbox is showing what appears to be a tag of a spot, i want to be called the label as if i had clicked the spot. is it so complex as it appears?

[Plater]

Well how is the "click" controlled with images of spots?
You could make a function called like IAmClicked(<some paramaters>); and have your image click call it and pass in the values it needs to know "what got clicked" or whatever.
Then you could do the same with your textbox things, call that function with the parameters to know what got clicked and where and the like?

[nnightwolf]

ok i'll be more specific because my previous post wasn't understandable: a) there is a form in which appears a map (eg the globe)
from the code i create many pictureboxes which have these attibutes: image--> a dot, tag--> a name of country, left and top --> x,y of the country from the image.
b1) i've wrote a procedure that handles all these pictureboxes -array- and depending the tag, the program filters the database and shows in a picturebox the map of the country and in a textbox the name of the country (which was the same as the tag)
b2) by clicking a spot(country) another label is created, which takes the same text(as the tag) and position of the spot -also with array
c?) clicking the next button and while the map of the country and the name are appeared, i want the label to be called and "search" for the corresponding spot as if i had clicked the spot