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How to get all children and their values from a Window containing Tabcontrol

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Straightforward question

I have been trying for the past 2 days I could find a way to fetch all the children along with the data from a TabControl which has multiple TabItems in it. it looks like this

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The TABULAR TabControl has three TabItems (TEMPERATURE, TEMPERATURE1, AND PRESSURE) each TabItem contains textboxes and sliders. I want to loop through TabItems fetching all the textbox values and slider values.

I have tried the following methods but I was only able to see the data in properties when I add the variables to the watch window in debug mode.

METHODS I'VE TRIED

int tabular_items = TabularJsonEditor.Items.Count;
                sock.sendData(tabular_items.ToString());
                foreach(var rh in TabularJsonEditor.Items.SourceCollection)
                {
                    string h = rh.ToString();
                    var coll = TabularJsonEditor.SelectedContent;
                    
                }
                var iEnumeratorOftoBeIterated = TabularJsonEditor.Items.SourceCollection.GetEnumerator();
                while (iEnumeratorOftoBeIterated.MoveNext())
                {
                    Console.WriteLine($"The current value is: {iEnumeratorOftoBeIterated.Current}");
                    var curr = iEnumeratorOftoBeIterated.Current;
                    //var res = LogicalTreeHelper.GetChildren(curr);
                    var rest = ListBindingHelper.GetList(curr);
                    var temp = GetVisualChild(0);
                    
                }

WATCH WINDOW

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Solution

  • use VisualTreeHelper to get child controls, and test type of child

    static public void EnumVisual(Visual myVisual)
{
    for (int i = 0; i < VisualTreeHelper.GetChildrenCount(myVisual); i++)
    {
        // Retrieve child visual at specified index value.
        Visual childVisual = (Visual)VisualTreeHelper.GetChild(myVisual, i);

        if (childVisual is Slider slider)
            Debug.Print(slider.Value);

        // Enumerate children of the child visual object.
        EnumVisual(childVisual);
    }
}