setting combo-box to enable/disable in a code...

[markenstein]

I have a form (frmMain) with one panel, 3 buttons and a combo box (this is outside of the panel)..

is there a way to enable/disable the combo-box when one of the buttons is enabled (say button 1 is enable, i want the combo-box to be enabled too, and if this same box is disabled, the combo box should be disabled too).

right now i do a loop:

foreach (Control ctrl in this.Controls)
                {
                    if (ctrl is ComboBox)
                    {
                        ComboBox cb = (ComboBox)ctrl;

                        if (cb.Name == "cmbDocumentClasses")
                        {
                            cb.Enabled = false;

                            break;
                        }
                    }
                }

since I know that there is only one combo box in the form, is there another way to just go directly to this combo-box and set it to Enabled = false?

Thanks in advance.

[darwen]

You should have a member called 'cmbDocumentClasses'. Windows forms puts a member variable named the same as the 'Name' property for each control into the form.

e.g.

public void Example()
{
    cmbDocumentClasses.Enabled = false;
}

Darwen.