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c#winformsuser-controlsflowlayoutpanel

How to change the property of a control from a flowlayoutpanel?

How to change the property of a control in a flowlayoutpanel assuming that you add the controls programatically and assuming that the name of each controls are the same?

For example this image shows you that there are 2 text boxes and two buttons, how would I change the back color of button 2? Assuming the controls has been added at runtime.

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foreach(Controls ctrl in flowlayoutpanel1.Controls)
{
//What should I put here?
}
Solution

  • Well, the easiest way would be to retain an explicit reference to the buttons you're adding. Otherwise you could add a tag to distinguish them (to be robust against i18n issues). E.g. you can set the tag of "button2" to "button2" and then you can use:

    foreach (Control ctl in flp.Controls) {
    if ("button2".Equals(ctl.Tag)) {
        ctl.BackColor = Color.Red;
    }

    }

    I am assuming your problem is to find the actual button again and not setting the background color. You could likewise check for the control being a button and its text being "button2" but if the text can change depending on the UI language that's probably not a good idea.

    ETA: Totally forgot that you can use the control's Name property for this as well.

    If you just want to change the background color of the button in a response to an event from the button you can just use the sender argument of the event handler, though.