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MadsTheMan
MadsTheMan

Reputation: 703

Powershell form: how can I find controls based on name-property

How can I list all the controls in my form where (name)-property begins with something spesific and then use it in a foreach?

I have multiple groupboxes under multiple tabpages where the name starts with gbs (Example: gbs1, gbs2, gbs3 ++). Now I want to disable all the groupeboxes that begins with gbs* at say a click of a botton without having to list all the groupboxes manually.

I've tried to look it up, but I can't find good documentation on it. I might be searching for the wrong words...

I'm guessing this is a start, and it's as far as I've come, but I'm not sure where to go from here or if I'm way off;

$list = @($MainForm.Controls.Find -like 'gbs*')

foreach ($item in $list){$item.enabled = $false} #Just a example of what I'm thinking

Purpose: I am creating a .exe form that is going to automate active directory. The form contains a bunch of settings, and all of them is within these groupboxes. I’m going to have a ‘edit-mode’, so that when it’s active - the groupboxes are enabled. When not, disabled.

Solution, thanks to help from @Clijsters :

    #Get all the tabpages
    $script:tabpages = $tabTasks.Controls | Where-Object { $_.Name -like "tp*" } | select Name, Controls
    $script:tabpages += $tabSettings.Controls | Where-Object { $_.Name -like "tp*" } | select Name, Controls

    #Get groupboxes in tabpages
    $script:groupboxes = [System.Object]$tabpages.Controls

    #Disable
    $groupboxes | Where-Object { $_.Name -like "gbs*" } | ForEach-Object { $_.Enabled = $true }

Upvotes: 1

Views: 5267

Answers (1)

Clijsters
Clijsters

Reputation: 4256

For finding Items in a list, Where-Object is your CmdLet of choice!

In your case something like 

$list = $MainForm.Controls | Where-Object {$_.Name -like "gbs*"}

will work fine. You can store the result in a variable (like shown above) and use it in foreach or pipe the resulting list directly to ForEach-Object and process it there like below:

$MainForm.Controls | Where-Object {$_.Name -like "gbs*"} | ForEach-Object {Do Something}

Upvotes: 3

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