I've hit a wall in .NET

[Kiyu]

Okay, I'll spare all the details because I'm REALLY not good at explaining them, but let's say I have a string of code, such as...

objectName.location = (x, y)

...but I need to take the name of an object, which is stored in a variable, and execute that same line of code using the name stored in the variable.

For instance, let's say the name "ObjectOne" was stored in variable "objectName", and I wanted to run the code:

ObjectOne.location = (x, y)

However, the name stored in "objectName" could be anything, so simply typing out the above code would not work, I need to somehow execute the same code, but using the variable to do it with whatever the name of that object might be:

(name stored inside variable "objectName").location = (x, y).

but typing "objectName.location = (x, y)" does not work. Does anyone know another way to solve this problem?

[SLH]

If you have several game objects, lets say ObjectOne, ObjectTwo and ObjectThree all of type ObjectType then you could use the following code:

ObjectType objectName = ObjectOne;
objectName.location = (x,y);
//ObjectOne's location is now (x,y)
objectName = ObjectThree;
objectName.location = (x2,y2);
//ObjectThree's location is now (x2,y2), and ObjectOne's location is still (x,y)

[Kiyu]

Hmm, I think I see, so by preceding the text "objectName" with the ObjectType, say "PictureBox", the text objectName is recognized as an object, rather than just a variable, in the following lines of code?

EDIT: I must have misunderstood, that did not work.

[SLH]

In my example objectName is a variable of type 'ObjectType', which can refer to an object of that type (ObjectType).
If you wanted to change a picturebox's location (a different picturebox each time) you'd do something like this:

PictureBox objectName = PicBoxOne; //Declare the variable objectName as a variable of type 'PictureBox', with an initial value of PicBoxOne (so objectName now references PicBoxOne)
objectName.location = (x,y); //Since objectName references PicBoxOne this line effects PicBoxOne
//PicBoxOne's location is now (x,y)
objectName = PicBoxThree; //Set the variable objectName to reference PicBoxThree
objectName.location = (x2,y2); //Since objectName now references PicBoxThree this line effects PicBoxThree
//PicBoxThree's location is now (x2,y2), and PicBoxOne's location is still (x,y)

I would give you a complete example, but i only have C# installed.