[RESOLVED] What is the class ID for a textbox

[blaff]

Hello,

hopefully somebody can help me with this:

I'm creating a form on wich I dynamically create controls.

Background:

With my app a user can execute an sql-statement on several sql-servers at once.

After the processing he will get a form with the results.

On the form is Tab-Control (TabOne from ComponentOne). I can dynamically create tabs with this control and attach other controls to this tabs.

I want to create a text-box showing the results. But my problem is: I don't know the class-iD of a textbox. Right now I'm using:

    Dim rt As Object

    Set rt = Controls.Add("Forms.TextBox.1", "rt" & x)

This works fine for me. But the created control is not the same as a textbox I create during design-time in VB. I think the Forms.TextBox.1 comes with office and I can't make sure that my customers have office installed (and if yes in which version).

I tried to use Spy++ to find out the class-ID, but it says "ThunderTextBox" which is not a valid Class-ID.
I searched the registry without luck. I tried to use the OLE/COM Object view from VS6, but I can't find the right classID!

Any Ideas

[deja]

draw textbox on a form and change its index property to 0
the following code add textbox dynamically:

Load Text1(Text1.UBound + 1)
Text1(Text1.UBound).Top = Text1(Text1.UBound - 1).Top + Text1(Text1.UBound - 1).Height
Text1(Text1.UBound).Visible = True

[blaff]

YESSS!!!

That works! Thank you!

[brucevde]

But my problem is: I don't know the class-iD of a textbox

Use the class id from the VB library

Set objCtrl = Controls.Add("VB.TextBox", "TextBoxName")
Set objCtrl = Controls.Add("VB.ComboBox", "ComboBoxName")

ThunderTextBox is the window class used to create an instance of a TextBox (Thunder was the code name used by Microsoft when it was developing VB).

[blaff]

Thanks!

Do you know a generally good way to detect the className of a control?

Most of the time the OLE/COM Object-Viewer is very helpful, but in this case I haven't found the className!

Originally posted by brucevde
ThunderTextBox is the window class used to create an instance of a TextBox (Thunder was the code name used by Microsoft when it was developing VB).

You sure know the details

[brucevde]

I just use the Object Browser. It contains the library/project name and the different class names. For third party controls you will need to add a reference to the component.

I rarely use the Controls.Add method as I prefer the method of adding a control to an existing control array outlined by deja.