Cycling through all GUI Objects within a form
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Hi, Given a form I need to be able to collect the Name Property of all the GUI Objects within it. - Not Only Nested Controls, But also for example tabPages, ToolStripMenuItems and such. How can this be done? Thanks. (.NET 2.0)
Each object contains the Controls property, which contain all of the controls that they constrain, so this might be a place to start. Hint - this can be done recursively.
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Each object contains the Controls property, which contain all of the controls that they constrain, so this might be a place to start. Hint - this can be done recursively.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
Pete O`Hanlon wrote:
Each object contains the Controls property
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Hi, Given a form I need to be able to collect the Name Property of all the GUI Objects within it. - Not Only Nested Controls, But also for example tabPages, ToolStripMenuItems and such. How can this be done? Thanks. (.NET 2.0)
Iterate over the
Controlscollection.
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Hi, Given a form I need to be able to collect the Name Property of all the GUI Objects within it. - Not Only Nested Controls, But also for example tabPages, ToolStripMenuItems and such. How can this be done? Thanks. (.NET 2.0)
by looping through all children of the MainForm and their children and so on. You can use either recursion or a Stack algorithm. To get the children use the Controls property of a Control. To speed things up use property HasChildren to check if a Control has childrens.
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Pete O`Hanlon wrote:
Each object contains the Controls property
Brilliant minds... :-D
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
Brilliant minds...
Sometimes our level of genius is quite embarrassing.:-D
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Each object contains the Controls property, which contain all of the controls that they constrain, so this might be a place to start. Hint - this can be done recursively.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
Do not forget to check the HasChildren property. Speeds things up.
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Iterate over the
Controlscollection.
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As I said I need not cycle over the controls only. For Ex: Assuming ther is a Control Within the Form of Type - ToolStrip The ToolStrip Class has no Controls Property Its Childeren are Beeing held in a collection which can be accessed with the Items Propery - Now - to get to them I cannot do what u have all mentioned above. So... my Question Remains - how can this be done?
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Pete O`Hanlon wrote:
Each object contains the Controls property
Brilliant minds... :-D
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As I said I need not cycle over the controls only. For Ex: Assuming ther is a Control Within the Form of Type - ToolStrip The ToolStrip Class has no Controls Property Its Childeren are Beeing held in a collection which can be accessed with the Items Propery - Now - to get to them I cannot do what u have all mentioned above. So... my Question Remains - how can this be done?
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
Brilliant minds...
Sometimes our level of genius is quite embarrassing.:-D
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
poda....................:laugh:
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As I said I need not cycle over the controls only. For Ex: Assuming ther is a Control Within the Form of Type - ToolStrip The ToolStrip Class has no Controls Property Its Childeren are Beeing held in a collection which can be accessed with the Items Propery - Now - to get to them I cannot do what u have all mentioned above. So... my Question Remains - how can this be done?
Then you will have to use reflection to determine if you need to recurse into a Controls collection or an Items collection.
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As I said I need not cycle over the controls only. For Ex: Assuming ther is a Control Within the Form of Type - ToolStrip The ToolStrip Class has no Controls Property Its Childeren are Beeing held in a collection which can be accessed with the Items Propery - Now - to get to them I cannot do what u have all mentioned above. So... my Question Remains - how can this be done?
Iterate like people have said, but check the type of the object, and run a separate peice of code to get its items collection, or its child controls etc. Whatever you do, im pretty sure there isn't some simple function you can use, its gonna take quite the chunk of code, and your probably gonna have to write it all yourself.
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Then you will have to use reflection to determine if you need to recurse into a Controls collection or an Items collection.
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I Have just recently heard about reflection and I'm quite not familiar with the subject. So... can you please hand me a little piece of code to show how can this be done so I will not have to read all about reflection. ( I'm a litle busy the next days any I need this job to be done as quickly as possible ). Thanks.
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Then you will have to use reflection to determine if you need to recurse into a Controls collection or an Items collection.
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Iterate like people have said, but check the type of the object, and run a separate peice of code to get its items collection, or its child controls etc. Whatever you do, im pretty sure there isn't some simple function you can use, its gonna take quite the chunk of code, and your probably gonna have to write it all yourself.
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Don't you think, that this would bring a lot of useless matches (ListBox.Items). I think it would be easier to check out how many control classes don't match "Controls", and do a typecheck ("as") at them!
All the best, Martin
Martin# wrote:
Don't you think, that this would bring a lot of useless matches (ListBox.Items).
Since I don't know what the overall purpose is I can't say if that would bring lots of useless matches or not. It might do. It might not.
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Then you will have to use reflection to determine if you need to recurse into a Controls collection or an Items collection.
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I wouldn't use reflection. I'd just test if the current control is of a type with a property Controls or whether it is of for example type ToolStrip: Or the make the code more readable, introduce several overloaded methods that take the different types as a parameter (one overload for control, one for toolstrip, ....) And call them recursively.
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Do not forget to check the HasChildren property. Speeds things up.
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That may depend on how the enumeration is implemented.
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Whould you mind explaining yourself?? Undefeated's explanation and suggestion is perfectly valid.
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Martin# wrote:
Don't you think, that this would bring a lot of useless matches (ListBox.Items).
Since I don't know what the overall purpose is I can't say if that would bring lots of useless matches or not. It might do. It might not.
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