Custom Buttom Class Initializing Oddly

[Kiryojo]

I'm using a custom button class that is initialized by a custom panel class, and for some reason it doesn't initialize properly. Here's the code first, I'll explain the behavior afterwards.


public ref class customButton: System::Windows::Forms::Button
{
public:
static int bar;

customButton(int foo)
{
this->bar = foo;
this->Width = 50;
this->Height = 20;
this->Location = System::Drawing::Point(0,this->bar*32);
this->Paint += gcnew
System::Windows::Forms::PaintEventHandler(this, &customButton::cb_Paint);
}

void cb_Paint(System::Object^, System::Windows::Forms::PaintEventArgs ^)
{
this->Text = this->bar.ToString() ;
}
};

public ref class customPanel: System::Windows::Forms::Panel
{
public:
static array<customButton^>^ myButtons = gcnew array<customButton^>(8);

customPanel()
{
this->Height = 256;
for(int i = 0; i < 8; i++)
{
myButtons[i] = gcnew customButton(i);
}
this->Controls->AddRange(myButtons);
}
};



In my customPanel class I initialize an array called myButtons, and that array stores 8 customButton, which is a custom button class I made. That custom button class stores a variable "foo", which is set when the constructor is called.

Here's the odd behavior: when the loop in customPanel's constructor finishes going, all 8 buttons have the same value of "foo", which happens to be the last value called in the loop. Now, if I manually declare each of the buttons like this:


myButtons[0] = gcnew customButton(0);
myButtons[1] = gcnew customButton(1);
myButtons[2] = gcnew customButton(2);
myButtons[3] = gcnew customButton(3);
myButtons[4] = gcnew customButton(4);
myButtons[5] = gcnew customButton(5);
myButtons[6] = gcnew customButton(6);
myButtons[7] = gcnew customButton(7);


I still have the same problem. All of the buttons have the same foo value as the last button declared. So if I declare "myButtons[6] = gcnew customButtom(5000);" last, all my buttons now have a foo value of 5000. This is not the behavior I want; I want each button to have the foo value it was initialized too.

One other sidenote: The code I used to initialize the buttons locations puts the buttons in the correct y value (which is this->bar * 32 in my code), which means that each of those custom buttons have the correct value in them when they are first initialized.

Anyone have any idea what I'm missing here?

[TheCPUWizard]

static int bar;