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Guest repliedTa joe.
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Guest repliedAnswer provided below:
Private Sub ControlArrayAsParameter()
thingy Command1
End Sub
Private Sub thingy(x As Variant)
Dim y As CommandButton
For Each y In x
y.Caption = "I'm a command button"
Next
End Sub
In VB in most cases almost everything can be passed as a variant or object if you have problems and you can then reassign it to its correct type, or if you're not sure which type it is use 'VarType'.
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Guest repliedTa chaps, but I need to use an array of controls before getting to the click event - specifically I am creating a program for identifying natural specimens. I want it to be as general purpose as possible to work with several different databases, insects, mammals, grasses etc. without significant reprogramming.
To that end I am reading the names of the pictures and captions on the buttons from a setup file when the form is loaded. Obviously I can have a loop outside the sub, or various other messy solutions, but can't believe there is not a neater solution to what must be a common problem.
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Guest replied"so much easier to make the UI pretty than in VC++"
Try Borland C++ Builder, that's also so much easier than VC++, and it's fast.
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Guest repliedIs this what you want
A form with 2 buttons in array Command1, each with an event
Private Sub Command1_Click(Index As Integer)
thingy Command1(Index)
End Sub
and thingy defined as
Sub thingy(But As CommandButton)
But.Caption = "Name is " & But.Name & " " & But.Index
End Sub
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Guest started a topic Basic VB questionBasic VB question
Doing some educational software in VB6 - so much easier to make the UI pretty than in VC++ (any shade as long as it's grey). Generally peesopiss - but there's one thing I can't figure.
How do you call a sub or function with an array of controls? Say if I had an array of command buttons Command1 and did something like:
Thingy Command1
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sub Thingy(But() as CommandButton)
don't work - get 'user defined type or array expected'.Tags: None
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