Question : How can I find a UIElement on a WPF application

Hi,

I have a number of Ellipses on the main interface to a WPF application.

I would like to change the properties of these programmatically, but I want to reference them by name (otherwise the code will be huge!!)

I would like something like this:

Ellipse mine = (Ellipse) UIElements.Find["ellipse12"];

I know this is not the correct syntax, but is this approach possible???

Any help would be appreciated.

Best regards,

James

Answer : How can I find a UIElement on a WPF application

It's all correct till it's works :P

But in case of your code you can easily get null, especialy with dynamicly created objects. VisualTreeHelper handles most common errors and FindName is failsafe and requires sainty checks.

Question : How can I find a UIElement on a WPF application

Answer : How can I find a UIElement on a WPF application

It's all correct till it's works :PBut in case of your code you can easily get null, especialy with dynamicly created objects. VisualTreeHelper handles most common errors and FindName is failsafe and requires sainty checks.

It's all correct till it's works :P

But in case of your code you can easily get null, especialy with dynamicly created objects. VisualTreeHelper handles most common errors and FindName is failsafe and requires sainty checks.