Control Names

I have ten textboxes on my form which are hidden until being populated. My question is: How do I refer to these textboxes when I'm in a loop? For example - I've tried "Text" & z - when z is set to 2 to no avail.

Old Man

[Edited by Old Man on 10-11-2000 at 05:21 PM]

Change the textboxes into a Control array (set the index property to something other than 0 and their names to the same thing: IE Text1 ...) After you do this, you'd refer to each one by it's name and index like an array: Text1(X) ...

make a control array by naming them all them same and setting the index property starting at zero

you can then refer to them as Text1(x).Visible = True

Or you can do it like this:

Code:

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  For Each MyControl In Me.Controls
      If TypeOf MyControl Is TextBox Then MyControl.Visible = True
  Next

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You could also...

Code:

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Dim Controlx as Control
For Each Controlx In Me.Controls
  If TypeOf Controlx Is "TextBox" And Left$(Controlx.Name, 4) = "Text" Then Controlx.Visible = True
Next

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WITHOUT setting a control array.

that might cause conflicts if there are more TextBoxes on the form with other uses. If you perfer to use Matthew Gate's solution, I suggest you consider "tagging" the objects you want to work with.

Code:

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Dim ctl as Control

For Each ctl In Controls
    If TypeOf ctl Is TextBox Then
        If ctl.Tag = "TAGGED" Then
            'Do your code here
        End if
    End if
Next ctl

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Thanks very much for your help! I got it.

Let's do lunch!!


Old Man