any mistake?

on form click im creating a panel with 11 labels in it:

Code:

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Private Sub DrawEntity(ByVal mouseDownPoint As System.Drawing.Point)
        Dim panelSize As New System.Drawing.Size(150, 250)

        Dim newPanel As New Panel
        newPanel.Location = mouseDownPoint
        newPanel.BorderStyle = BorderStyle.FixedSingle
        newPanel.Size = panelSize
        Me.Controls.Add(newPanel)

        Dim newLabel As New Label
        Dim x As Integer = 10
        For cntr As Integer = 0 To 10
            newLabel.Parent = newPanel
            newLabel.Dock = DockStyle.Top
            newLabel.Tag = x
            x = x - 1
            newLabel.TextAlign = ContentAlignment.MiddleCenter

            If cntr = 10 Then
                newLabel.Font = New System.Drawing.Font("Times New Roman", 10, FontStyle.Bold)
            Else
                newLabel.Font = New System.Drawing.Font("Times New Roman", 10, FontStyle.Regular)
            End If

            newPanel.Controls.Add(newLabel)
        Next

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I am then opening form 2 that has 11 textboxes on it..... when the user clicks a button, the text of the textboxes is put into an array:

Code:

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Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        Dim ctl As Control
        Dim x As Integer

        For Each ctl In Me.Controls
            If ctl.GetType.ToString = "System.Windows.Forms.TextBox" Then
                x = ctl.Tag
                TableField(x) = ctl.Text
            End If
        Next
End Sub

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I then close form2 and would like to get the text from the array and fill the labels that are in the panel. I currently have the following:

Code:

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Dim ctl As Control
        Dim lab As System.Windows.Forms.Label
        For Each ctl In Me.Controls
            If ctl.GetType.ToString = "System.Windows.Forms.Panel" Then
                For Each lab In ctl.Controls
                    lab.Text = TableField(lab.Tag)
                Next
            End If
        Next

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The problem is that only the top label (Tag = 10) is getting filled up with text. I dont know if the problem is in the creation of the labels or when i fill them with text.

Please help
thanks

Move

Dim newLabel As New Label


into your For loop... you're only instaciating one and changing it's value.

thanks for your reply.

So how exactly do i create 11 labels?

ok thanks..... it works fine after i move the declaration of the label into the for loop.

thanks again

sorry to be a pest..... but its working well now......
except that if the user clicks on the form a second time to create another panel with another set of labels in it....... and sets the text for the labels...... the text of the first set of labels is changed again and becomes the same as the second set.

the first set of labels should keep their text value

Thanks again

Nasty2,
you assign the values based on the Tag, so the second time you assign values to both sets of labels because you have two labels with Tag=0, two with Tag=1 ... and son on.

To avoid this, modify the Tag once the label gets his value:

Code:

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Dim ctl As Control
Dim lab As System.Windows.Forms.Label
For Each ctl In Me.Controls
    If ctl.GetType.ToString = "System.Windows.Forms.Panel" Then
        For Each lab In ctl.Controls
            If lab.Tag >= 0 Then
                lab.Text = TableField(lab.Tag)
                lab.Tag = -1
            End If
        Next
    End If
Next

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or something similar.

Another way: identify the panel number and set only the labels on the correct panel.

Hope it helps