Hi there,

Ok, I'm in trouble.

I designed an onscreen keyboard for a registration system in restaurants that can be handled by touchscreen (65 buttons).

The text and name of the buttons need to be dynamicly loaded with data from my database.

I can put it in hard code (but I am lame and dont want to write those few lines 65 times).

dim thisButton as clsButton = new clsButton()
thisButton = thisButton.findByPK("btn1")
btn1.text = thisButton.addText
this works fine but I want to put in in a for ... next loop.

The problem occurs when I need to define wich button needs to be set.

I need something like

for ...
strText = "btn" & i
me.controls(strText).text = thisButton.addText
next ....

Offcourse this doesn't work cause strText is string and not of type button.

Who can help me how I can convert the string to type button and still have it pointing to the button I named btn1.

Hope someone in the WWWorld can help me.

This is my final project before I graduate.

Thank you.


Frank

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Frank Vandeven
Belgium

Try:
You may have to use the FindControl method to get the control by ID.

bmains- I'm not sure that will work.

Usually, when you need to find a control by name, you need to use something like this:

CType(Me.FindControl(strText), Button).Text

I thought the way to find it was FindControl, but I haven't been developing windows applications, and I didn't want to make that assumption.

Thanks planoie

Brian

Thank you for the response.

BUT

When I try to use me.FindControls(..

I get the error "FindControl is not a member of "projectname,formName""

do I need to import or inherit something?

I tried a lot of things but can't get it to work.

Might there be a problem cause my buttons are located in groupboxes?

Frank

Frank

<s>You have to look in the controls collection where you expect the control to be.
To find ControlC, you need to use Control2.FindControl(), instead of Me.FindControl.

(Unless I'm completely off my rocker, which is entirely possible.)
</s>
Peter
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Work smarter, not harder.

That sound's right, since the groupbox is a container control, you should query that control using the FindControl Method.

However, I can't find the FindControl method in the list of methods for the GroupBox, and I'm going to assume the same for the Windows Form. You need to try to find the equivalent, or loop through the child controls with a for each mechanism to access the child controls (child controls of the group boxes).

Hope this helps.

Apparently I am off my rocker. I was informed off-list that FindControl() is not available in Windows.Forms programs. I don't work with them much so I shouldn't have suggested it. My apologies for any misdirection.

Thanks for the help.

I think it's going to be a lot of typing afterall.

do you think this will slow down the start up cause it needs 68 in/outs to my dbase?


Frank

OK, I'm true searching .
I found a way to handle it.

Dim arrButtons(63) As Button

    Private Function LoadButtons(ByVal strBtn As String, ByVal arrBtn As Button)
        Dim thisKnop As knop = New knop()
        Try
            thisKnop = thisKnop.findKnopByPK(strBtn)
            arrBtn.Text = thisKnop.Opschrift
        Catch
        End Try
    End Function

    Public Function fillButtonArray()
        fillArray()
        Dim i As Integer = 1
        For i = 0 To arrKnoppen.Length - 1
            LoadButtons("btn" & (i + 1).ToString, arrKnoppen(i))
        Next
    End function

Public Function fillArray()
        arrButtons(0) = btn1
        arrKnoppen(1) = btn2
        arrKnoppen(2) = btn3
        arrKnoppen(3) = btn4
        arrKnoppen(4) = btn5
        arrKnoppen(5) = btn6
......
End Function

This works, only the first time it gets loaded it takes +/- 1.5 secs so that's ok with me

Maybe this can be usefull for somebody else who has the same problem.

Thanks y'all

Frank