Command Array Click Event in VB 2008

[supun24]

Hi All, I have created Command Array like follows.

Public Class Form1
    Dim NewButton(25) As Button
    
    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        Dim loc As Integer
        loc = 50
        For i = 1 To 25
            NewButton(i) = New Button()
            NewButton(i).Text = "Hello " & i
            Me.Controls.Add(NewButton(i))
            NewButton(i).Location = New Point(10, loc)
            NewButton(i).Name = "NewButton" & i
            loc = loc + 20
                   Next

    End Sub

So.. I want to get each and every command button name when I press One of command button.

Ex:
If I press NewButton8 then I need msgbox with it's name, text (All of command button properties if possible). Button Name is very important

Thank You very much,
Regards,
Supun Silva

[tlhintoq]

So what is your question exactly?
How do you make a message box?
How do you get the name of the button you clicked?
You seem to already have a handle on .Name property since you are assigning when you make the button. Just read it.

[supun24]

Re::

Please sorry........ I don't know what is the code I should write to get Button Name in msgbox and where put it???
Please help me...

Regards,
Supun Silva

[tlhintoq]

Take the .Name property of the button and put it into the .Text property of the MessageBox


Oh - wait - When you are making your buttons you are not assigning any handler to them. So they do nothing when you click them.

Make a handler to receive the .Click event of the buttons.

In your loop assign that handler to every button.
NewButton(i).Cl ick += new handler (intellisense will help you out here)
All the buttons go tot he same handler so you will need to get the

((button)sender ).Name property

[supun24]

Didn't get you

Hi... Please could you kindly send me the coding including my code. I didn't understand your short code. Please forgive me for that..

Regards,
Supun Silva

[tlhintoq]

Have you ever created a button programmaticall y and assigned a handler to it?

[supun24]

Hi..

No.. I didn't do the program to create button dynamically

[tlhintoq]

May I suggest that you start a little smaller then?
Instead of trying to create an entire array of buttons programatically start with just one.

Learn how to make one control (button) programmaticall y. Assign event handlers. Get properties etc.

Then when you are comfortable with how to do one, THEN try it with bunch of them.

We all have to learn to walk before we can run.

[supun24]

hii

Hi.. Thank you buddy!!! Cool.. I really apologize about my knowledge. Could you kindly tell me how to create button in run-time(Dynamicall y) and add handler in vb 2008.

Thank you,
Supun Silva

[tlhintoq]

The MSDN is a great resource to start with for such things. I'm more a C# guy than VB - but it is still a .NET language so most everything is the same; only different.

MSDN on creating controls programmaticall y

MSDN for the button control (adding event handler for click)