Question

I have a Windows Form that contains only buttons. The final goal is to make a simple logic game I saw but for now the problem is that I want to perform different actions when my New button is clicked, but now it is part from all the buttons in the form so sometimes an action is performed on him too which should not happen. To make myself clear I have two screenshots :

So this is how I want it to be – I have a matrix – 3×3 (in this case, at the end it can be NxN). By clicking New I want to be able to do various things one of which is to make N buttons colored red. What happens now is sometimes my New button also get painted because I go over the buttons like this:

 foreach (Control c in this.Controls) 
                        {
                            if (c is Button)
                            {
                 ...

and thus sometimes New get selected too, so I end up with this:

What I’m thinking right now is just to perform check whenever I need in the code and exclude my New button explicitly but I don’t think it’s a good way cause I may end up with a code doing this thing in a lot of places in my program so what is the right solution in this case? If some code is needed please ask.

Answer 1

Quite possibly the easiest solution is to put the Grid in its own Panel (pnlGrid). Put all of the buttons in there, then you could just do the following instead:

foreach (Control ctl in pnlGrid.Controls) { 
    if (ctl is Button) {
        // Do your logic here
    }
}