Creating arrays of controls in VB 2005. Help!

Creating arrays of controls in VB 2005. Help!

• Sudheer Palyam

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/dnadvnet/html/vbnet05132003.asp

  
  

• ClaudiaM

  <quote>Sheesh. You'd think I would be able to insert a panel or a groupbox and then insert a textbox and copy/paste a bunch of them in to create an aray of them. But noooooooo, it can't be that easy. </quote>
  
  Actually you can do exactly that...
  
  Place a groupbox/panel/container control on your form drop your textboxes on the container and then you can iterate through the controls collection of the container!  You may not have that index so sweetly defined though!
  

  
  
  

• Marian Negru

  Well, it may not be elegant, but let me try.
  
  

• Aaron Tan

  Have you tried using the tag property in lieu of the index property from VB6
  
  Then you could modify the event handlers to handle all of your particular controls.
  
  Here is something I've done before with text boxes
  
  Assign numbers to thier tag properties, perhaps to coincide with the array positions if known, but since you want to set other properties at design time perhaps you know.
  
  Create an enum to give them friendly names (but not necessary)
  
  private enum myfield
      FirstName = 5
      LastName = 10
      MiddleInit = 15
  end enum
  
  Set one of the events to handle all the events for the controls you want
  
  Private Sub textbox_validating(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs) Handles _
      textbox1.Validating,  textbox2.Validating, textbox3.Validating
  
          Dim txtField As TextBox
  
          If TypeOf sender Is TextBox Then
              txtField = CType(sender, TextBox)
         
              Select Case txtField.Tag
  
                  Case myField.FirstName
                       'Do whatever with the textbox having a tag property of 5
  
              End select
          End If
  
  End sub
  
  
  

• Harish Krishnan

  Sometimes those VB6 features are truely missed (control arrays ahhhh)..
  
  you do have several other options though...
  
  MyTextboxArray() as System.Windows.Forms.Textbox
  
  or
  
  

  Public Class TextBoxCollection

  Inherits System.Collections.CollectionBase

  Public Sub Add(ByVal TXB As TextBox)

  ' Invokes Add method of the List object to add a TextBox
  List.Add(TXB)

  End Sub
  

  'youll have to override a couple of other methods...
  End Class
  
  Just as an example of a couple of your options...

  
  
  

• Mike.PD

  Is there a graphical way to implement this in the design page
  
  It looks like you present a method of creating the textboxes via code. Then I have to place them and size them. I'd like to design the form.
  
  I noticed on the ported code that my textboxes were in the form _txtModulePin_0, _txtModulePin_1, etc where they have a property "Index on txtModulePin". This is the sweet solution  I'd like.
  
  Sheesh. You'd think I would be able to insert a panel or a groupbox and then insert a textbox and copy/paste a bunch of them in to create an aray of them. But noooooooo, it can't be that easy.
  
  
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