Seperate data from Serial Port

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Hi,

I'm developing an Winform GUI Application, that uses the serial port to communicate with a sensor. Everytime I send a request, it sends me a response, like this:

Request: readBasicAttr 0
readColorControl 0

I receive response like this:

Attr 0x0000= 1
Attr 0x0000= 123

Now I want to put each response in a textbox, but i don't know how to do this. Basically I want to put the first response to textbox 1, the second to textbox 2 etc...

Does anyone have experience with this? No need to write the code for me, just tell me how to do this, and I'll write the code myself

Best regards

Posted 23-Apr-15 3:51am

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OriginalGriff · Answer 1 · 2015-04-23T04:27:00

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I would strongly suggest that a textbox each is a bad idea - it's perfectly feasible, but it's clumsy, both to implement and for the user.

Have you considered using a DataGridView or a ListBox instead? Both of them are a lot more flexible than separate textboxes.

Posted 23-Apr-15 4:27am

OriginalGriff

Jason Gleim · Answer 2 · 2015-04-23T04:46:00

OriginalGriff is right... what you are suggesting can be done better. But... maybe you have a good reason... who am I to judge?

So if you have them in a groupbox or some other container like that, you can iterate the child controls array (it is a property on that containing control) to get a reference to each control within the container. Order isn't guaranteed although they will typically appear in the order they were added to the container. But, giving the text boxes sequential names like "databoxXX" where XX is an increasing number would allow you to reference them by name. A simple counter can be incremented to generate the next name.

Good luck.