multiple textbox

[fishingman]

Hello,
I want to read more textbox using a For loop. My problem is that the names of Textbox are defined (#define...)  and I can not move the counter  in the call of GetCtrlVal.

Ex:

for(i=0;i<50;i++)

{

GetCtrlVal(panelHandle,Constant_Name_Of_Textbox_With_i; val);

}

I can not really achieve this by using several ways. Thank you for a method to correct my problem.

Thanks

[Wolfgang · Accepted solution]

Hi,

1) If you happen to use LabWindows/CVI 2010 you can use arrays of User Interface controls, see https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-14829

2) You can also create your controls programmatically, allowing indexed control ids.

3) And you can also assign your control array manually, such as control_id [ 50 ] = { constant_textbox_1, ...}

[tstanley]

Another option is to use GetCtrlAttribute with the ATTR_CTRL_STYLE and check to see whether the control is a textbox or not.  Instead of blindly looping through the controls you can also get the first control ID by using GetPanelAttribute with the ATTR_PANEL_FIRST_CTRL attribute to get the first control, and then GetCtrlAttribute with ATTR_NEXT_CTRL to get the next control.  I would probably do something like this:

GetPanelAttribute (panel, ATTR_PANEL_FIRST_CTRL, &control_id);

while(control_id > 0)
{
 GetCtrlAttribute (panel, control_id, ATTR_CTRL_STYLE, &control_style);

 if(control_style == CTRL_TEXT_BOX_LS || control_style == CTRL_TEXT_BOX)
 {
  //things to be done with the textbox controls
 }

 GetCtrlAttribute (panel, control_id, ATTR_NEXT_CTRL, &control_id);
};

Hope this helps.

[fishingman]

Thanks for your response

I will test your methods and i send the results.

Thanks

[OVR_CZ]

Hi,

    i use another method, it is not so universal like one from tstanley,but it is more straightforward for me.

const int UI_ControlArray[50]=
 {Constant_Name_Of_Textbox_1,
  Constant_Name_Of_Textbox_1,
  Constant_Name_Of_AnotherTextBoxt,
  ...
 };

...
for(i=0;i<50;i++)
{
  GetCtrlVal(panelHandle,UI_ControlArray[i]; val);
}

   This method can be easily modified to use struct (in array) for access multiple controls in each cykle.

Edit: i later see that Wolfgang mention this way already, so this is just example 🙂

[fishingman]

Hi,

I use the first method (ControlArray) :

for (int i=0; i<3;i++)

{

GetCtrlVal(panelHandle, GetCtrlArrayItem(ctrlarray,i), val);

....

}

Thank you for your help