Access Form Members with an integer?

Question

Hello,

In theory the whole thing I'm trying to accomplish is stupid from object orientated point of view,but I have to do it.

Its an Online game I'm working on.The client has an inventory with items,you know - virtual items. The server sends the items with their corresponding position in the inventory.

This is how my inventory looks like:

I have 62 panels(each panel represents the room in the inventory).

My problem:When I sort out the virtual items and the corresponding slots they should be placed in,I have to draw them on form.

In theory,If I receive item "C:\a.bmp" in position 4,how do I set panel4.image to be equal to the image?

This is what I'm trying to do:

var data = new byte[6];
... //we receive a packet,data is our buffer
var position = data[4];
Form1.panel + position + .backgroundImage = "bla bla.jpg";

How do call the panels like that?

Answer 1

Turn them into an array instead of having 62 individual variables. Then you can use:

Form1.panels[position].BackgroundImage = "...";

There isn't any designer support for this (that I'm aware of) though - did you create all those panels in the designer? If you can possibly do it programmatically instead, you'll make your life a lot easier (IMO).