place buttons on form load....easy one

I have 15 command buttons I want to be positioned upon form load.

I can do this the 'long' way by doing this:
command1.top=100
command1.left=200

ect..for all 15. but i know I can put them into a collection or something and just loop through all buttons.

what i need is for 3 buttons to be next to each other then the next three to be just below the first three then the next three to be just below the second three(like the buttons on your number pad or phone.

I don't know exactly how to write the code to do this though(with a collection or for next loop or something)

thanks

first put all the buttons into a control array ranging from 0 to 14 then put this in the form_load event...

Dim x As Integer
Dim y As Integer
Dim num As Integer

Const inc As Integer = 500

x = inc
y = inc

Do While num < 15
Command1(num).Height = y
Command1(num).Width = x
num = num + 1
Loop

num = 0

Do While y <= (inc * 5)
Do While x <= (inc * 3)
Command1(num).Top = y
Command1(num).Left = x
x = x + inc
num = num + 1
Loop

x = inc
y = y + inc

Loop

Hope this is what your looking for!

ok make a command button
set index to command1 to 0
then put this code in form_load


Dim I As Integer, I2 As Integer, I3 As Integer
I2 = 0
For I = 1 To 14
I2 = I2 + 1
Load Command1(I)
Command1(I).Top = Command1(I - 1).Top
If I2 = 3 Then
Command1(I).Top = Command1(I - 1).Top + Command1(I - 1).Height
I3 = Command1(0).Left
I2 = 0
Else
I3 = Command1(I - 1).Left + Command1(I - 1).Width
End If
Command1(I).Left = I3
Command1(I).Visible = True
Next I

cool
thanks to both of you

how do I make each button have it's own sub?
I mean, I want to be able to click any button and get a msgbox that tells me the number of the button.

thanks again

msgbox(index)

sweet.

one more thing.
I actually need the buttons to be four accross.
I got this to work with your code codegreen.
but when I try and change the captions to read,starting from the upper left,
1,2,3,4 ect...the first button says 14 and then the next button says 1, 2 follows ect... then the last button (lower right) says 14 again.

how do I fix this?

if I didn't explain myself well enough let me know, I try and make it clearer.

thanks again

Dim I As Integer, I2 As Integer, I3 As Integer
I2 = 0
Command1(0).Caption = 0 ' or Command1(0).Caption = 1
For I = 1 To 14
I2 = I2 + 1
Load Command1(I)
Command1(I).Top = Command1(I - 1).Top
If I2 = 4 Then
Command1(I).Top = Command1(I - 1).Top + Command1(I - 1).Height
I3 = Command1(0).Left
I2 = 0
Else
I3 = Command1(I - 1).Left + Command1(I - 1).Width
End If
Command1(I).Left = I3
Command1(I).Visible = True
Command1(I).Caption = I
Next I


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if you need the first one to be 1 not 0 then Command1(I).Caption = I + 1

Just change the values in the do while loops to the hight and width that you want it (in this case 4x4) and add in the iff statement right after it to make sure that it doesn't go past the end of the array:

Do While y <= (inc * 4)
Do While x <= (inc * 4)

If num = 15 Then
Exit Sub
End If

you should end up with something like this:

****
****
****
***

* = command button

Hope this works

Owen.