Some kind of all opener, need help :)

[Mitron]

okay so i want a textbox + a button wich u can open everything in your app with... lets say you have a hidden panel and and just need to write "panel1" in the textbox and click Open button and it shows... anyone know how to fix ?

i think it should work something like "textbox1.text" + .show()
but i dunno :P anyone have ideas ?? ^^

[grak]

Editted, nevermiiiiind.

[Mitron]

hmm yea that works but what aobut if you have... 50 panels ? :O u have to write that code 50x times
EDIT: one thing i forgot to say.... the textbox text should be merged together with .show() into a code... in some way... is it even possible ?
u know what i mean ?

[ReidE96]

Put them all in an array, grab the number, do panel(number).show()

[Apoc]

        public bool ShowControl(string name, Control.ControlCollection controls)
        {
            foreach (Control control in controls)
            {
                if (ShowControl(name, control.Controls))
                {
                    return true;
                }
                if (control.Name == name)
                {
                    control.Show();
                    return true;
                }
            }
            return false;
        }

        private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            ShowControl(textBox1.Text, Controls);
        }

Enjoy.

[ReidE96]

Public Function ShowControl(ByVal name As String, ByVal controls As Control.ControlCollection) As Boolean
    For Each control As Control In controls
        If ShowControl(name, control.Controls) Then
            Return True
        End If
        If control.Name = name Then
            control.Show()
            Return True
        End If
    Next
    Return False
End Function

Private Sub button1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
    ShowControl(textBox1.Text, Controls)
End Sub

Automagic translation.

[Dmxsbb]

Reference it as a object, then use Suffix show