Referencing controls

[Paul Warren]

Does anyone in here have an answer? http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...hreadid=193229

[Edneeis]

I don't think you can you'd have to call the code in the module from inside the Usercontrol.

Well actually you could pass a reference of the control to a method in the module and it could work with it from there. Make sure you clean up good though.

'in module
Private txt as textbox
 
Public Sub AttachMe(txtbx as TextBox)
   Set txt=txtBox
   Msgbox txt.Text
End Sub
 
'in usercontrol
Private Sub UserControl_Initialize()
   AttachMe Text1
End Sub

It should be something along that lines, didn't test it.

[Paul Warren]

It's no problem calling the code in the module, it's referencing the controls on the usercontrol that's p***ing me off. If I stop the code at runtime and look at the local variables I can see the bloody things. VB just says 'Object does not support this method...blah...blah' when I try to access Text1.Text or UserControl.Text1.Text or usrMyControl.Tex1.Text.

Just read your bit about passing it the control and that works but a single control at a time is not really an option, it's too complex for that. I'm looking for something like a form reference.

Thanks anyway, I'll just keep trying.

[Edneeis]

Why does the code need to be in a module? How many constituent controls are there on the Usercontrol?

For that you'd probably have to make your own control collection although that wouldn't be difficult.

You could either pass the controls collection as an object:

'in module
Public Sub PassCol(obj As Object)
    Dim ctrls As Object
    Set ctrls = obj
    Dim ctrl As Control
    For Each ctrl In ctrls
        MsgBox ctrl.Name
    Next
End Sub
 
'in usercontrol
PassCol Controls

Or if you don't want to use the generic object then put all the controls in your own collection:

'in module
Public Sub PassCol(col As Collection)
    Dim ctrls As Collection
    Set ctrls = col
    MsgBox ctrls.Count
End Sub
 
'in usercontrol
    Dim col As New Collection
    Dim ctrl As Control
    For Each ctrl In Controls
        col.Add ctrl
    Next
    PassCol col

[Paul Warren]

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Thank you! I didn't think about passing the controls collection, I was trying to pass a reference to the whole usercontrol and dig down from there.

[Edneeis]

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Glad I could help.