Array of form objects?

[John Mason]

Hi,

I have 5 separate placeholders within a web form. Each contain varying
amounts of textboxes and labels that were dynamically created and added.

When retrieving the various textbox id's and text values I use a
for..next loop to step through:

For a =..
CType(plcAttend ance2.Controls( a), TextBox).ID
CType(plcAttend ance2.Controls( a), TextBox).Text
Next

Could someone pls show me how I can dynamically refer to each
placeholder? Something like..

For b = 1 to 5
For a = ...
CType(plcAttend ance[b].Controls(a), TextBox).ID
CType(plcAttend ance[b].Controls(a), TextBox).Text
Next
Next

??

This would save me a lot of time with coding!

Any help much appreciated..



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RE: Array of form objects?

"John Mason" wrote:
[color=blue]
> Hi,
>
> I have 5 separate placeholders within a web form. Each contain varying
> amounts of textboxes and labels that were dynamically created and added.
>
> When retrieving the various textbox id's and text values I use a
> for..next loop to step through:
>
> For a =..
> CType(plcAttend ance2.Controls( a), TextBox).ID
> CType(plcAttend ance2.Controls( a), TextBox).Text
> Next
>
> Could someone pls show me how I can dynamically refer to each
> placeholder? Something like..
>
> For b = 1 to 5
> For a = ...
> CType(plcAttend ance[b].Controls(a), TextBox).ID
> CType(plcAttend ance[b].Controls(a), TextBox).Text
> Next
> Next
>
> ??
>
> This would save me a lot of time with coding!
>
> Any help much appreciated..[/color]

Use the typeof operator to programmaticall y identify the control type during
run-time, e.g.,

Dim cntrl As Control
For Each cntrl In plcAttendance1. Parent.Controls
If TypeOf cntrl Is PlaceHolder Then
Dim childcntrl As Control
For Each childcntrl In cntrl.Controls
If TypeOf childcntrl Is TextBox Then
Response.Write( CType(childcntr l, TextBox).ID)
Response.Write( CType(childcntr l, TextBox).Text)
End If
Next
End If
Next

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[John Mason]

RE: Array of form objects?

Thanks for that. Is there a way of reiterating through a group of
placeholders? I have 5 placeholders named...

plcAttendance1
plcAttendance2
..
..

I would prefer to reiterate through all of them at once instead of
writing separate code for each.

Thanks!



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Re: Array of form objects?

If the placeholder controls are spread in different places on the page you
need a recursive function to find them. For example the following function
would recur through a collection of controls to find TextBox controls within
PlaceHolder controls:


private void FindMyControls( ControlCollecti on cntrlcol)
{
foreach (Control cntrl in cntrlcol)
{
if (cntrl is PlaceHolder) {
foreach(Control childControl in cntrl.Controls) {
Response.Write( ((TextBox)child Control).ID);
}
}
else if (cntrl.HasContr ols())
{
FindMyControls( cntrl.Controls) ;
}
}
}

You can call this function as follows:
FindMyControls( Page.Controls);

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"John Mason" <wollondilly@ho tmail.com> wrote in message
news:urizwuMiFH A.3448@TK2MSFTN GP12.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> Thanks for that. Is there a way of reiterating through a group of
> placeholders? I have 5 placeholders named...
>
> plcAttendance1
> plcAttendance2
> .
> .
>
> I would prefer to reiterate through all of them at once instead of
> writing separate code for each.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
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[John Mason]

Re: Array of form objects?

Thanks very much www.societopia.net

That is most helpful!

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