Iterating forms? [given up. unsolved]

[BrianHawley]

Anybody know how to iterate forms?

In VB6 it would be something like:

'Do each form
  For i = 0 To Forms.Count - 1
        Forms(i).Caption = "Got it!"
  Next i

In C#?

  foreach (Form f in ?????????????)
  {
    f.Text="Got it!"
  }

I'm guessing it must be something easy and trivial, but I can't seem to get anyting to work.

[kovan]

since forms are "classes"
looks like you have to look into "Reflection"

[BrianHawley]

Can you be a bit more specific?

[kovan]

what i mean is that since forms are ojbects, and so is everything else, to be able to determine information on objects as far as i know you have to use the reflection namespace
search for Reflection in .NET
(thats the only way i know how to do it, if anyone knows a better way please say so)

[DevGrp]

This is not guaranted, but you can try this. Declare a collection, Then after each form is created, insert that form in the collection, then later you can iterate through the collection.

Hope that helps

[DevGrp]

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[BrianHawley]

Originally posted by DevGrp
This is not guaranted, but you can try this. Declare a collection, Then after each form is created, insert that form in the collection, then later you can iterate through the collection.

Hope that helps

Yes, I did think of that - but it seems incredible that there is no easier way to get refrences to all forms loaded by an application.

Guess I'll have to settle for iterating the MDI Children, which is quite easy.

[Scott Penner]

This might be a hack, but...

You could use global ArrayList object to keep track of forms as they are opened. In the closed(ing?) event of each form, you could removed the form object from the ArrayList. Then, whenever you need to step through the open form collection, it's available.