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Update textbox text dymanically

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  10 months ago

  by mmiller039

  Mark Miller

  London, United Kingdom

  Joined 10 months ago
  I am looking for a way to dynamically update a textbox when a variable/database entry changes. My problem is that I have 120+ textboxes based on combinations of 13 data points. To be specific, these points are bid/ask for different future contracts. My code handles event notifications when any of the futures bid/ask changes and I can update a database or just a variable in the code, this is no problem. My problem is that I want the textbox text to "point" to the combination of these and update as the points change. Currently I only have a couple of ideas, though I do not think any of them are appropriate due to latency: 1) On the notification loop through all the textbox references to see if it contains one of the changed variables and change it (convoluted if all 13 are changing) 2) Create a thread for each future to do the above (again convoluted and will have to lock the textbox while I check and could cause backlogs making it just as inefficient) Many thanks in advance.
  Post was edited on 17/12/2008 11:20:28 Report abuse