Container

Can anyone give a good and practical example where and how use the control called container?

the control?

isn't it a parent object?

I don't think Container refers to a control by itself. I mean it's not something like a Textbox. For each control, the .Container object returns the reference of the control in which the said control is. For e.g. if you have a form and a textbox in that form, the form would be the container of the textbox. If you paste the following code in a form that has a textbox named Text1, you would see it right away:

VB Code:

Private Sub Form_Click()
    MsgBox Text1.Container.Name
End Sub

Put a frame on the form named Frame1 and change the above code to :

VB Code:

Private Sub Form_Click()
    Set Text1.Container = Frame1
End Sub

Moreover the following is given in MSDN

Quote:

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Returns or sets the container of a control on a Form. Not available at design time.

Containers can be either forms, pictureboxes and frame controls.

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