I should probably be posting this somewhere else but hopefully someone here will be able to give me some advice.

Following the examples provided with DFL, I have created a tabbed form containing a number of text boxes, labels and a cancel and submit button. onSubmit_click I need to save the information contained in the text boxes to a file, likewise onCancel_click, I need to set all textboxes to null. Problem is I'm not sure how to access all the different text boxes to save or update the values.

all text boxes were created in the following manner:

TextBox transactionData; // this is the only variable I use for textboxes
with(transactionData = new TextBox)
{
  // set properties;
}
control.add(transactionData)
with(transactionData = new TextBox)
{
  // set properties for new button;
}
control.add(transactionData)
//etc...

I've found that if I instantiate each TextBox at class scope, then I can access and update them later, however, since there will literally be hundreds of these boxes I don't want to have to declare a pointer to every single one. Is there another way?

Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
Andrew

On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 23:35 -0400, Tyro[a.c.edwards] wrote:
> I should probably be posting this somewhere else but hopefully someone here will be able to give me some advice.
> 
> Following the examples provided with DFL, I have created a tabbed form containing a number of text boxes, labels and a cancel and submit button. onSubmit_click I need to save the information contained in the text boxes to a file, likewise onCancel_click, I need to set all textboxes to null. Problem is I'm not sure how to access all the different text boxes to save or update the values.
> 
> all text boxes were created in the following manner:
> 
> TextBox transactionData; // this is the only variable I use for textboxes
> with(transactionData = new TextBox)
> {
>   // set properties;
> }
> control.add(transactionData)
> with(transactionData = new TextBox)
> {
>   // set properties for new button;
> }
> control.add(transactionData)
> //etc...
> 
> I've found that if I instantiate each TextBox at class scope, then I can access and update them later, however, since there will literally be hundreds of these boxes I don't want to have to declare a pointer to every single one. Is there another way?
> 
> Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
> Andrew

I don't use DFL myself but looking at the on-line documentation something like this should do it.

foreach(ctrl; control.controls)
{
	TextBox textBox = cast(TextBox)ctrl;

	if ( textBox !is null )
	{
		//Do something with the text box
	}
}

-- 
Mike Wey

Milke Wey Wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 23:35 -0400, Tyro[a.c.edwards] wrote:

[snip]

> > 
> > I've found that if I instantiate each TextBox at class scope, then I can access and update them later, however, since there will literally be hundreds of these boxes I don't want to have to declare a pointer to every single one. Is there another way?
> > 
> > Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
> > Andrew
> 
> I don't use DFL myself but looking at the on-line documentation something like this should do it.
> 
> foreach(ctrl; control.controls)
> {
> 	TextBox textBox = cast(TextBox)ctrl;
> 
> 	if ( textBox !is null )
> 	{
> 		//Do something with the text box
> 	}
> }
> 
> -- 
> Mike Wey
> 

Thanks for the assistance Mike... This works great if I'm trying to access the control itself, but in this case I'm trying to get to the objects embeded in the control.

For example: I have a tabbed control with 7 tabs and each tab has a set of labels, buttons, and textboxes. This method allows me to access the properties of the tabbed control but I'm trying to find out how to access the textboxes on each tab.

Thanks again,
Andrew

Tyro[a.c.edwards] escreveu:
> Milke Wey Wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 23:35 -0400, Tyro[a.c.edwards] wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
>>> I've found that if I instantiate each TextBox at class scope, then I can access and update them later, however, since there will literally be hundreds of these boxes I don't want to have to declare a pointer to every single one. Is there another way?
>>>
>>> Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
>>> Andrew
>> I don't use DFL myself but looking at the on-line documentation
>> something like this should do it.
>>
>> foreach(ctrl; control.controls)
>> {
>> 	TextBox textBox = cast(TextBox)ctrl;
>>
>> 	if ( textBox !is null )
>> 	{
>> 		//Do something with the text box
>> 	}
>> }
>>
>> -- 
>> Mike Wey
>>
> 
> Thanks for the assistance Mike... This works great if I'm trying to access the control itself, but in this case I'm trying to get to the objects embeded in the control.
> 
> For example: I have a tabbed control with 7 tabs and each tab has a set of labels, buttons, and textboxes. This method allows me to access the properties of the tabbed control but I'm trying to find out how to access the textboxes on each tab.
> 
> Thanks again,
> Andrew

I think this should work:

foreach(c; control.controls)
{
    TabPage t = cast(TabPage)c;

    if(t !is null)
    {
        foreach(ctrl; t)
        {
            TextBox textBox = cast(TextBox)ctrl;

            if(textBox !is null)
            {
                // ....
            }
        }
     }
}