On Jun 19, 2006, at 2:49 PM, Chuck Pelto wrote:
Hi Maarten
On Jun 19, 2006, at 12:33 PM, Maarten de Vries wrote:
There probably is, but it seems a bit like overkill... I would
suggest you
either pass only the data required or the controls containing the
data. I
don't see why you'de have to cycle every control on the window. If
you don't
know the number of the controls/data you need to pass, make the
parameter an
array.
Actually, I think it's better to have a reusable module that takes
ANY window and extracts data from the various elements where data
is stored within than to build the same sort of functionality into
every window of every application.
Yeah...the machines have to do more work, but that beats the heck
out of ME doing more work in writing code.
The question remains, how do I access a control element, such as an
EditField with a Control Class object?
You cast the reference to the correct type.
For i as Integer = 0 to self.ControlCount - 1
If Control(i) IsA EditField then
...
ElseIf Control(i) IsA PopupMenu then
...
ElseIf ...
Else
End if
Next
But I don't see a good way to make your approach work in general.
For example, suppose you have a PopupMenu. How does one know whether
its values represent tables or fields? You can begin writing
subclasses of controls like SQLTablePopupMenu...
Charles Yeomans
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