Problem with enumerating all the child controls

[kalagammaii]

Hi all,

Am new to VB.Net.Am able to enumerate all the child controls of any parent window which is currently active... But its again and again calling itself untill that parent window is active.

I wan it to be like, once a new parent window is active, it should find all the child controls and then it should stop untill my next parent window is active.

Is there any way to find the total no. of child controls in the active window?

Is there any way to do it?


Please anyone help me.........

Thanks in advance......

[longwolf]

You're in the wrong section of the forum.
This is VB6.
Maybe one of the moderators will move it for you.

[si_the_geek]

Thread moved from 'VB6 and Earlier' forum to VB.Net (VB2002 and later) forum

(this would have been done much sooner if you had clicked the "report" icon to the left of the post )

[longwolf]

Thread moved from 'VB6 and Earlier' forum to VB.Net (VB2002 and later) forum

(this would have been done much sooner if you had clicked the "report" icon to the left of the post )

Didn't know that one, I thought it was for tattling on ppl

[wy125]

If I understand you I think you wish to determine all the controls on a given form as well as the children of the children all the way down. If so then you could do something like this:

Private Sub MakeControlList() 

        Dim controls As List(Of Control)
        controls = New List(Of Control)
        EnumerateControls(controls, Me)

        Me.ListBox1.Items.AddRange(controls.ToArray())
        Me.ListBox1.DisplayMember = "Name"
    End Sub

    Private Sub EnumerateControls(ByVal controls As List(Of Control), ByVal child As Control)


        Dim c As Control

        For Each c In child.Controls

            controls.Add(c)

            EnumerateControls(controls, c)


        Next


    End Sub

The list 'controls' will contain a recursive list of all the controls on the form. You can call that anytime on a form to get the list. You may want to consider a different structure such as a tree if you want to preserve the parent/child relationships.

[kalagammaii]

I wan it not only for my form, i wan it for any window which is currently active.
but the below mentioned statements can get the controls number only for the form.

EnumerateControls(controls, Me)

Me.ListBox1.Items.AddRange(controls.ToArray())
Me.ListBox1.DisplayMember = "Name"

Please help me out to get it for all the active windows.

Thanks in advance.

[wy125]

sorry I didn't understand. do you mean from all active windows outside of your program?

[kalagammaii]

Ya. All active windows outside my program.