C# address Button using a string

Question

I have a Problem with addressing a button. I have many buttons in my program and I have a function which is used by every button. I'm getting the name of the last clicked button with this:

foreach (Control t in this.Controls)
{
    if (t.Focused)
    {
        ClickedButton = t.Name;
    }

}

Then I want to change the Text of the button:

ClickedButton.Text = "Whatever";

But I can't use ClickedButton as the name of the button.

Thank you in advance!

Is this in an event? Post the surrounding code? – Adam May 18 '12 at 17:56 — Adam, May 18 '12 at 17:56

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 18 '12 at 17:53

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Assuming this is an event, you can just do something like this

Button btn = (Button)sender;
btn.Text = "Whatever";

answered May 18 '12 at 17:53

Kevin DiTraglia

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 18 '12 at 18:35

If you're having the clicked button call into the Click event, you should have sender as an argument, which you can cast to a Button and get the name of the control.

Since you have the button reference, you could then also set the control's text.

protected void btnTest_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    Button b = sender as Button;
    if ((b != null) && (b.Name == "btnTest"))
    {
         b.Text = "yay";
    }
}

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 18 '12 at 17:58

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If you are writing this in your button_click event,

You can Get the button like this :

Button BTN = sender as Button;
BTN.Text = "This Button Has Been Clicked!";

answered May 18 '12 at 17:58

Writwick

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C# address Button using a string

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