How to change textbox within an if statement

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This is difficult to sya, but I w basically like to know how to change the textBox being used to save lines, for example, similar to how you can put a variable within a string that changes the string, make the textbox line change ffrom text being put into textBox1, into textBox2 after the first loop (could use counter).

C#

if (counter < 5)
{
    textBox1 = "A CHANGING VALUE"
    counter++;
}

So maybe somehow, textBox1, could become textBox2 after the first loop using a counter??

Posted 3-May-14 5:05am

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-03T05:17:00

Solution 1

Easy!

C#

TextBox outputTo = textBox1;
for (counter = 0; counter < 10; counter++)
   {
   outputTo.Text = "A CHANGING VALUE " + counter;
   ...
   outputTo = textBox2; 
   }

Posted 3-May-14 5:17am

OriginalGriff

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Member 10786148 3-May-14 13:00pm

That has worked fine, but now when trying to do it for a pictureBox, I change the .Name instead and still doesnt seem to do what I want

OriginalGriff 4-May-14 4:29am

Changing the Name property for a control doesn't change the actual control instance, anymore than renaming a "rose" to "daffodil" will make it yellow! :laugh:

What are you trying to do?