Dynamic Labels

[1druid1]

Hi All

I am creating an electronic display board using Visual Studio 2005, this will be an application using VB and not web based.

What I am trying to do is use labels dynamicly and populate them from a dataset, Now there is a lot of labels on this board and to be honest the perfect solution would be to use a Data Grid View, unfortuantly I have to fit the information into a Custom Graphic that was created, hence the reason for labels.

So obvisouly I dont want to have to name each label and specify its information, for example:

Label1.text = MyDataSet.Tables(0).Rows(0).Item(0)
Label2.text = MyDataSet.Tables(0).Rows(1).Item(0)
Label3.text = MyDataSet.Tables(0).Rows(2).Item(0)

So I thought about something as follows but not sure how to get it work.

Say I new I had 100 Labels Label1 to Label100.

Dim i as Integer
For i = 1 to 100

Dim MyLabel as New Label
MyLabel.Name = "Label"& i
MyLabel.Text = MyDataSet.Tables(0).Rows(i).Item(0)
Next i

Now the above doesnt work but it doesnt throw up any errors either. So just looking for a little help to get me on the right path.

Edit *****
New Question..

I wasnt going to ask this because I know the rules regarding Key Loggers, but I am hoping there may be another way to do this without the Keylogging method. The electronic board will have multiple pages, I would like to be able to flick through the pages or go directly to the page using a Microsoft MCE remote control, Button 1 would take you to page 1, 2 to 2 ect. I know the remote control basically sends keystrokes directly to the focused application (I Think). Now 80% of the time there would not be an issue as the electronic board will have the focus, but our anti virus program (Trend Micro 10) seems to take focus for whatever reason.

If keylogging techniques are the only viable means then I appologise and please ignore this second question

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Cheers

Dougie

[DataMiser]

You have to provide more info when creating a new control. such as position and visible in order to get it to show on the screen,

[1druid1]

Hi

I am not trying to create new controls, I already have all my Labels on the form.

Cheers

[1druid1]

Hi All

Think I have a solution for my first question

I have tried this and it works as longs as I set the tag to a number.

For Each ctl As Control In TabControl.TabPages.Item("TabPage4").Controls
            
            If TypeOf ctl Is Label Then
              
                Dim lbl As Label = DirectCast(ctl, Label)
               
                If lbl.Name = ("LblP" & lbl.Tag) Then
                    lbl.Text = MyDataView.Table.Rows(lbl.Tag - 1).Item(0).ToString
                ElseIf lbl.Name = ("LblR" & lbl.Tag) Then
                    lbl.Text = MyDataView.Table.Rows(lbl.Tag - 1).Item(3).ToString
                End If
            End If
        Next

[DataMiser]

Hi

I am not trying to create new controls, I already have all my Labels on the form.

Cheers

The code you posted is creating new labels, if that is not what you were trying to do then that would be part of the problem