How Do I Name Many Controls Rapidly ?

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i have many picture box in my project ( 300 picture box ) and i want to name all this picture box something like this :
PictureBox1_75
PictureBox2_75
PictureBox3_75 ... it would be so easy if there's a place where i can select all the names and change it by using ctrl+H , is there's an easy way to do so ??

Posted 19-Jan-14 5:27am

Eren001

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Krunal Rohit · Answer 1 · 2014-01-19T05:59:00

Solution 1

C#

int i=0;

foreach(Control ctrl in this.Controls)
{
    if(ctrl is PictureBox)
    {
        i++;
        ctrl.Name = "picBox" + i;
    }
}

I haven't tried this, but this should work.!!

Posted 19-Jan-14 5:59am

Krunal Rohit

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Eren001 19-Jan-14 12:22pm

thk u , i'll try it

Vedat Ozan Oner · Answer 2 · 2014-01-19T06:12:00

I haven't heard any IDE that supports your request, but you can do this in BASH(bourne-again shell) easily.
Assuming that your source code files are all *.cs:

ls *.cs | while read a
do  
  sed -i.bak 's/Picture\([0-9]*\)_75/picBox\1/g' $a
done

I recommend you to look at sed utility which is very useful in text processing.

Another point, if you like to search for *.cs files in a directory and its sub-directories, better to use

find . -name "*.cs"

instead of "ls *.cs".

Life is easier with shell scripting :)

Abhinav S · Answer 3 · 2014-01-19T06:15:00

Solution 3

300 controls = you should create them dynamically and name them through code.

Posted 19-Jan-14 6:15am

Abhinav S

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Eren001 19-Jan-14 12:21pm

thk u for advice