Integral Type Expected

[JurkMonkey]

So switch statements make me mad sometimes.

It won't let me switch a GUI Component, not even its name.

I want to say:

switch(tabControl1.SelectedTab)
{
case tabPage1:
case tabPage2:
...
}

but it always looks for an int, char, byte, blah blah.

Does anyone have a good solution to this? I always end up hacking around it and now I'm finally tired of it.

 

[JurkMonkey]

Here's a hack for you:

I have an enum MyView { View1, View2, View3 }

then I have a Property

public MyView CurrentView
{
get
{
return (MyView) tabControl1.SelectedTab.Tag;
}
}

I set the enum value in the tag.

And if VisualStudio eats my code one more time, I swear....

 

[chmohan]

does this work?
string sTest=tabControl1.SelectedTab.Name.ToString().Trim();

switch(sTest)
{
case 'tabPage1':// it may be "tabPage1" ,just play around


case 'tabPage2':
...
}

 

[JurkMonkey]

yeah, that works too. I've been doing that for quite some time now. I just hate hard coding names and values.