opening contents in panel from form1 in another panel in form2

Simon Reich

3y1kC#

I have a panel with many labels in it on form1.

I would like to click a button (also on form1), which will open up new window form2 with another panel, which will contain the same labels (I am interested particularly in the backcolor).

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Only solution I was able to come up with is to make all labels in the panel on form1 public, give every single one of them another "name" and make clicking the button to open new form2 and making its labels the same properties.

public Label labelxx;

public Form1()

{

initializeComponent();

instance=this;

labelxxHome = labelxx;

}

private void button7_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

Form2 f2 = new Form2();

Form2.instance.labelxxnewwindow.BackColor = labelxx.BackColor;

f2.Show();

}

while I will also make public labels in the form2.

But perhaps there is much easier solution? And will mine solution actually work? Thx a lot.

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Pankajkumar Patel3y ago

Hi Simon Reich,

One of the way is like as following:

.aspx

.aspx.cs

protected void Button3_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
	//Panel2 = Panel1;

	List allLabels = GetAllControls(Panel1);

	for(int i=0; i< allLabels.Count; i++)
    {
		Panel2.Controls.Add(allLabels[i]);
    }
}

private List GetAllControls(Control container, List list)
{
	foreach (Control c in container.Controls)
	{
		if (c is Label) list.Add(c);
		if (c.Controls.Count > 0)
			list = GetAllControls(c, list);
	}

	return list;
}
private List GetAllControls(Control container)
{
	return GetAllControls(container, new List());
}

For more details:

How to get ALL child controls of a Windows Forms form of a specific type (Button/Textbox)?
- https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3419159/how-to-get-all-child-controls-of-a-windows-forms-form-of-a-specific-type-button

Hope this will help you!