Automated button presses? 1

[airprox]

Hi folks,

I have an application that reads a couple of XML files (different formats) then writes a new text/xml file.

Basically the process is...
1st button pressed, openfile dialog is opened and a unique xml file is read using xmlTextReader. This populates a number of textBoxes on my form.
2nd button pressed, openfile dialog opened and another xml file is read using xmlTextReader. This populates some more textBoxes on the form.
Finally a 3rd button is pressed, this then writes a xml file using StreamWriter, using strings created from the textboxes.

Sooo... my question. Can I add another button to the form, that will look in a certain folder, and cycle through the sequence of button presses for each xml file it finds in there? I reaise this will mean getting rid of the openfile dialogs at each instance, but I think I could use 2 extra textBoxes with the folder path, and location of the file found in the second button press above.

Alternatively, should I just look at creating a exe file that will do the same sort of thing, but with some sort of drag and drop functionality?

Any thoughts or ideas greatly recieved.
Cheers
Alun

 

[litton1]

Do you mean, can you click all 3 buttons from a 4th button? If so you could use

MyButton1.PerformClick(); 
MyButton2.PerformClick(); 
MyButton3.PerformClick();

Hope this helps.

Age is a consequence of experience

 

[airprox]

Actually that helps a lot... it's made me realise that I'm making it too complicated. What I've done is combined the code for the 3 seperate button presses, for the one button. This way, I can work on removing the openDialog sections without removing that functionality from the individual buttons.

Need to go off and have a play/think... expect more questions!

Cheers
Alun

 

[litton1]

Thanks... Glad i could help.

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