Question

I am using Visual Studio C++ 2010 Express, and i was wondering if its possible to refer to some box (textbox, picture box, whateverbox) using a word/number stored in variable. For example:

textBox1 -> Text = "I fill textBox1 with some text";

same as

string ^ name = "textBox";
int number = 1;
name+number -> Text = "I fill textBox1 with some text";

So, can i achieve that somehow? I am asking cuz i have multiple boxes i would like to change in a loop (for or while) increasing number variable and i dont want to write every box name everytime, that looks awfull in code, and probably isnt the best idea to do that :/

Answer 1

If you have multiple textboxes you are better of storing them in an array of some kind so that you can refer to them as textbox[0] , textbox[1] etc etc

or do them in a loop like

for ( int i = 0 ; i < 5 ; ++i )
     textbox[i]->Text = "Bar";