On 01/10/2015 03:33 PM, Tobias Boege wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Jan 2015, T Lee Davidson wrote:
>>> If Panel1's containing Form is FForm, then you can do
>>>
>>> FForm.Controls["TextBox1"]
>>>
[snip]
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for the elucidation, Tobi. But, I must be missing something.
>>
>> FForm.Controls["TextBox1"] returns a Control which does not have a Text
>> property.
>>
>> .Parent ("Panel1.Parent") returns a Container which also does not have a
>> Text property.
>>
>> If we do something like
>>
>> Dim hForm As Form
>> If Panel1.Parent Is Form Then hForm = Panel1.Parent
>>
>> we would have hForm.Controls["TextBox1"], which returns a Control with no
>> Text property.
>>
>
> It returns an object *typed* as a Control. But if the object is actually a
> TextBox, say, you can "cast" that Control to a TextBox, with something like
>
> Dim hControl As Control
> Dim hTextBox As TextBox
>
> hControl = FForm.Controls["TextBox1"]
> If hControl Is TextBox Then
> hTextBox = hControl
> ' ...
> Endif
>
> Since now the type of the hTextBox variable says "TextBox", and the object
> behind it has a Text property, this property can successfully be resolved.
That's great, Tobi. So then Martin can do something like:
Dim hForm As Form
Dim hControl As Control
Dim hTextBox As TextBox
If Panel1.Parent Is Form Then
hForm = Panel1.Parent
hControl = hForm.Controls["TextBox1"]
If hControl Is TextBox Then
hTextBox = hControl
Print hTextBox.Text
Endif
Endif
I tried it. It works.
> As for the hijacking, my bad. But I didn't understand Martin's question
> either way, so let's pretend I thought this was relevant to the thread :-)
Lol. Okay. :-)
Lee
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