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Rey Lopez
Rey Lopez

Reputation: 1

Need help reading label text from dynamically created labels

I have a method name addDays that takes in the first day the month falls in and how many days the month has. This method adds dynamic labels to a table 7x6 which would represent each day of the month of every week. I also added events to each label so the person can click them. The problem I am having is that I need to be able to read the labels that the person has click. Lets say I run the application populate my calendar and I click on the first of the month, I then want to be able to capture the text of that label which would be 1.
Here is the code of my addDays method. 

private void addDays(int day,int totaldays)
    {
            int reset = 0;
            Label newlabel;
            string label;
            int labelnum;
            Console.WriteLine("testoutputbeforebig forloop");
            //DayTableHold.Controls.Add(newlabel, 0, 6);
            int numday = 0;
            for (int coll = 0; coll <= 7; coll++)
            {

                    for (int row = 0; row <=6; row++)
                    {
                        if (numday < totaldays)
                        {
                            newlabel = new Label();
                            newlabel.AutoSize = true;


                            if (row==day &&coll==0)
                            {
                                labelnum = numday + 1;
                                label = labelnum.ToString();
                                newlabel.Text = label;
                                newlabel.Margin = new System.Windows.Forms.Padding(17, 0, 10, 0);
                                newlabel.Click += new System.EventHandler(days_Click);
                                DayTableHold.Controls.Add(newlabel, row, coll);

                                numday++;
                                reset = 1;
                                if (row == 6)
                                {
                                    coll = 1;

                                }
                                else coll = 0;
                                Console.WriteLine("testoutput1 " + numday + " " + label);

                            }
                            else if (reset == 1)
                            {
                                labelnum = numday + 1;
                                label = labelnum.ToString();
                                newlabel.Text = label;
                                newlabel.Margin = new System.Windows.Forms.Padding(17, 0, 10, 0);
                                newlabel.Click += new System.EventHandler(days_Click);
                                DayTableHold.Controls.Add(newlabel, row, coll);
                                numday++;
                                Console.WriteLine("test output2 " + numday + " " + label);
                            }



                        }



                }



        }

    }

This is my eventhandler for the labels click

    private void days_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        //here is were i want to capture the labels of the clicks.  
        count++;
        Console.WriteLine("day was click"+ count);


    } enter code here

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1593

Answers (1)

Samuel Slade
Samuel Slade

Reputation: 8623

You need to hook up to some event on the Label when you create it, so after your line:

newLabel = new Label();

you need to add a handler for the Click event:

newLabel.Click += new EventHandler(days_Click);

Then, inside your Click event handler, you can get the Label from the sender object:

Label selectedLabel = (Label)sender;
string labelText = selectedLabel.Text;

Upvotes: 3

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