On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 13:55 -0700, jbskaggs wrote:
> Okay I have a form with say 50 picturebox controls:
>
> How does one check each controls in a loop?
>
> So if I wanted to have a big picture box reference each of the previous
> pictureboxes
>
>
> In GML I could use this:
>
> a="PictureBox"
> for i = 0 to 50 step 1
> b=a&i
> BigPicturebox.Picture=b.picture
> wait 2
> next i
>
> But In gambas I cannot reference a control with a string. I have tried
> dozens of ways and spent eleven hours reading the docs, looking at examples,
> and so on. But the solution eludes me.
>
> It seems really inefficient to type out
>
> Bigpicturebox.picture=picturebox1.picture
> wait 2.0
> Bigpicturebox.picture=picturebox2.picture
> wait 2.0
> Bigpicturebox.picture=picturebox3.picture
> wait 2.0
> Bigpicturebox.picture=picturebox4.picture
> wait 2.0
>
> etc... fifty times
>
> I am using pictureboxes but it could be any existing control I would want to
> control from another event.
One way would be to put them in a container and access the children
array
FOR i = myContainer.Children.Count - 1 TO 0 STEP -1
myContainer.Children[i].DoWhatEver()
NEXT
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