string question

[bar3000]

I have a string with the value of "pictureBox89", a picturebox who's called pictureBox89, and another picturebox called picbox. Now when I recieve the "pictureBox89" string is there any way I can make picbox equal pictureBox89? I thought about If( a == "pictureBox89") picbox = pictureBox89; but the thing is I have too many pictureboxes. I figured if there's a command for this I could get it over with in one line. Thanks in advance.

[WinSolution]

I cant understand your logic Where does these string values comes from and what is the range of possible values (such as pictureBox1 ,pictureBox2 ,pictureBox3 ...) and why are you taking decision If you tell the me whole story i can give you a appropriate logic.

[arun_pk]

i think u can store the string "picbox" in another string variable(suppose strPB) and make that string variable as "picturebox89" and u can use the strPB in the places where its required

[Pete OHanlon]

If I understand your question, what you are asking, is if you can associate picbox with another control, the only reference you have being the string. Off the top of my head, I'd use something like the code below:

private Control FindControl(Controls controls, string controlName)
{
if (controls == null)
return null;
foreach (Control ctrl in controls)
{
if (ctrl.Name == controlName)
{
return ctrl;
}
else
{
Control c == FindControl(ctrl.Controls, controlName);
if (c != null)
{
return c;
}
}
}
}

Then, you can call this using

picbox = FindControl(MyForm.Controls, nameToSearchFor) as PictureBox;

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[Vikram A Punathambekar]

You want to find a control given its name? Just do this.Controls["controlName"] and cast it back into a TextBox or whatever.

Cheers, Vıkram.

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