User Control Proreties

[Sam Finch]

I'm Doing a Fractal Control and I want to have a couple of properties as Complex Numbers, I have a UDT

Public Type Complex

    Real As Double
    Imaginary As Double

End Type

but this is pretty useless in the Design Time Property Window, I want to have a String in the Property Window like "4+3i" but at Runtime I want this to be my UDT.

Is there any way of doing this, obviously I can do the conversions myself but How do I handle this conflict in Types?

Thanks in adv

I don't really get what you're saying? You want to convert a String to a Double?
[b]

Complex.Real = MyString

[kedaman]

Hehe, Sam, i'm sure you can do it with a classmodule, but for an udt, maybe you should use a function or something:

Function cx2str$(Cx as complex)

and

Function str2cx(str$) as complex

[Sam Finch]

No, That's not what I want at all.

I have my User Defined Type Complex and a property

Centre as Complex

This is fine to do at runtime but you can't have a udt appear in the property window, it's expecting a string.

How Do I controll the string interface to the property window without having the property a string at runtime?