for each control with custome control

[shahid]

hi,
i have built a simpel custom contol it have some radio button and checkboxes also some properties like upoints etc..
then i paste it to my form. then i built 12 instatnces of this control thru codes at runtime...
for i = 2 to 12
dim ucnt as new myuc1
ucnt.name="myuc"+tostring(i)
'set the positions and show it
next
works fine
whenever user click on checkbox or radio buttons the upoints has changed
now how i get the 12 controls point property at run time thru codes
i wrote this
dim cnt as control
for each cnt in mypanel.controls
if instr(cnt.name,"myuc") > 0 then
msgbox(cnt.upoints) <<<<< give error here by compiler bcoz upoints is not define...
end if
plz help me

[Shaggy Hiker]

Well, can't say I have ever heard of something called upoints. Is that a property of a control that I have just always overlooked, or is that a custom property of your custom control? It seems that the possible answer would be different for different answers to that.

[shahid]

yes it's a custom property
you tell me plz if we made some controls at runtime eg..
how to get it properties.

or if i made controls at desin time then how to set it position at runtime
i paste my custome control 12 time in a place holder
and set it property at run time
eg
mycus2.top=12
mycus2.left=0

and so on...
now it's overlap each other...

[Shaggy Hiker]

Setting the top and left properties at runtime is certainly how I'd do it....except that I guess I put all controls on a panel, and only move the panel around. However, when I move the panels around, I do so by altering the top and left properties, so that should work equally well for you.

You say they overlap. Do they only overlap a little bit, or are they all right on top of each other. If they overlap only a little bit, I would guess that the units you are setting for top and left are not what you think they are. I'm not sure which units are used for mobile dev, but it may be pixels.

As for the error in the original question, you define a control, then try to access the custom property that you have given it. However, you defined cnt as a member of Class Control. Your custom property is not a member of Control, it is a member ONLY of the custom class that you created. It may be derived from control, but the base has no knowledge of a property unique to the derived class.