Searching by control type?

[gudisdum]

We are working on a form where we need to do several functions with all the text boxes on it.(clear, enable, disable..etc) I have set a for each loop that cycles through the control tags, then performs the function. This seems to be a work around to me. Does anyone know of a way to "For each" just the text boxes out of the control collection?

Thanks for the help.

 

[stnkyminky]

This is a different solution but it doesn't only cycle through textboxes. I tried removing the IF.. statement and Dimmed ctrl as textbox but that didn't work.

Dim ctrl As Control
For Each ctrl In Me.Controls
If TypeOf (ctrl) Is System.Windows.Forms.TextBox Then
'....do something
End If
Next

Scott
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[DotNetDoc]

You have to search your form for type text box by looping through the controls collection. But you also have to take into account container controls.(Group Boxes etc...)

This will clear all the textboxes on your form.

The Sub proceedure below will do what you need.
This is how you call it. Me references the form you are on.

ClearChildText(Me.Controls)


Private Sub ClearChildText(ByVal contin As Control.ControlCollection)



Dim foundcontrol As Control





For Each foundcontrol In contin

If foundcontrol.GetType.ToString = &quot;System.Windows.Forms.TextBox&quot; Then
'Use CType to convert object to textbox
CType(foundcontrol, TextBox).Clear()

End If



If foundcontrol.Controls.Count <> 0 Then

ClearChildText(foundcontrol.Controls)

End If

Next foundcontrol



End Sub




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