How to loop through controls(different).

Question

Hi I need to loop through a bunch of picture boxes that I have all with names such as: PictureBox00 PictureBox01 PictureBox02 etc. I need to loop through these and adjust their values by what the current value in the loop is I basically want to do this to it: C# Syntax ( Toggle Plain Text ) for (int i = 0; i { PictureBox(i).enabled = false; } I need to access them like an array I will not know what picturebox I would be dealing with at that time only way I can see to do this is by using the loop cheers. EDIT: I think this was pretty easy to do in VB.NET via DirectCast not sure if that would be used here(the similar version).

Vulpes · Answer

You can do something like this (I'm assuming that the pictureboxes have all been placed directly on the form): for (int i = 0; i { PictureBox pic = (PictureBox)this.Controls[PictureBox0 + i.ToString]; pic.Enabled = false; }

Vulpes · Answer

Incidentally Liam you could have used the same approach if your pictureboxes (or any other control) had all been within some container such as a panel or groupbox rather than placed directly on the form. It would just have been a matter of replacing 'this.Controls' with 'this.panel1.Controls' (or whatever) as every container control has a Controls collection.

Liam Stevens · Answer

haha yes I guessed. This: [tile_ + j.ToString(00)] Any way I can subtract 1 from j at the same time such as: [tile_ + j - 1.ToString(00)] Cheers.

Vulpes · Answer

Oops a touch of VB# there from yours truly ;)

Liam Stevens · Answer

Cheers Vulples will try it out in my application and see how it goes you forgot the () on the .tostring method. I changed it slightly from: PictureBox pic = (PictureBox)this.Controls[PictureBox0 + i.ToString]; To this: PictureBox pic = (PictureBox)this.Controls[PictureBox + i.ToString(00)]; This way it will count up correctly and will be fine when past 10 cheers will try it out now.

Jaganathan Bantheswaran · Answer

then wait for some other reply.

Liam Stevens · Answer

Don't think that's a solution to my situation is there an alternative to the DirectCast method in c#? I don't know much about the method but it works in vb.net Don't think I can put them in a groupbox ty for reply however.

Jaganathan Bantheswaran · Answer

Hi Put all picture in GrouopBox or canvas or something like that and access that like PictureBox pic = canvas.children[0] as PictureBox; PictureBox pic = groupBox1.Controls[0] as PictureBox;