Flow layout panel with user controls - how to get at user control values?

Dear all,

I hope I'm not about to poperly fall at the final fence - hopefully someone can point me in the right direction...I have a flow layout panel into which I'm putting many instances of a user control. This control (for now) just has a check box and a few text fields only.

The code in the user control form looks like:

public partial class myfrmList : UserControl
{
    public int Index
    {
        get { return int.Parse(lb_Ref.Text); }
        set { lb_Ref.Text = value.ToString(); }
    }
    public CheckState Displayed
    {
        get { return cb_show.CheckState; }
        set { cb_show.CheckState = value; }
    }
...etc you get the idea...
}

In the code for my main form, when I want to put a new instance of the user control into the flow layout panel, I can do this with...

myflowlayoutpanel.Controls.Add(new myfrmList
{
    Displayed = CheckBoxState,
    Index = Indexval
});

...and the flow layout panel is populated with a new instance of my user control with the values I've set in it.

My problem is I can't find the right syntax to be able to use the 'get' routines to return values from each instance of the user control. I can iterate through the controls inside the flow control panel..e.g....

for (ctr = 0; ctr < myflowlayoutpanel.Controls.Count; ctr++)
{
    foreach (Control c in myflowlayoutpanel.Controls[ctr].Controls)
    {
        c....

    }
}

but if I do that it looks like all I can do is get the collection of controls in the user control - not their values.

I hope I'm just missing something obvious....if so I'm sorry for bothering you...

Many Thanks,

Aero

Tags: C#, User Controls