Mass set control text

[Segi]

I have many controls that are being displayed in a grid. I named the controls as follows: GRIDCELL_TEXT_1_1_1,GRIDCELL_TEXT_1_1_2, GRIDCELL_TEXT_1_1_3 etc.

In my Javascript Server side script I do a for loop to loop through all the controls mentioned above so I can set all of them with a default text value like this:

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var i,j,k=0;

var currControl;

for &#40; i=1;i<=5;i++&#41; &#123;
     for &#40;j=1;j<=5;j++&#41; &#123;
          for &#40;k=1;k<=10;k++&#41; &#123;
               currControl=controls.getControl&#40;"GRIDCELL_TEXT_" + i + "_" + j + "_" + k&#41;; 
              // does not work
             // currControl.text.setText&#40;"test"&#41;;
          &#125;
     &#125;
&#125;

the problem that I've encountered is that the currControl variable does not have access to the text property (which can be accessed by doing controls.GRIDCELL_TEXT_1_1_1.text.setText())

Is there a way to get a control object via getControl and be able to set its text property ?

[Segi]

Found a solution which is not as elegant because you have to loop through all controls on the current page but it works:

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for ( var control in Iterator(controls.iterator()) ) {
     if ( control.elementType == "Text Control" && control.elementName.substring(0,14) == "GRIDCELL_TEXT_" ) {
          control.text.setText("test");
     }
}

[HarryDeBoer]

Segi,

you can limit it to the grid by looping through it's childcontrols:

for each (var control in controls.GRIDCONTROL1.childControls) //returns GRIDCELLx
{
for each (var ch_control in control.childControls) //returns controls in the cell
{
if ( ch_control.elementType == "Text Control" && ch_control.elementName.substring(0,4) == "TEXT" )
{
ch_control.text.setText("test");
}
}
}

[Dave]

Modifiers are quite handy for this sort of thing. For example, assign a Modifier of value A to each control in your grid, and then

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var page = pages.PAGE_1;
for each (var ctrl in page.getControlsByModifier("A")){ctrl.text.setText("test");}

Dave