curious

[BigBosky]

i am curious what exactly is a control array?

[DaoK]

Control array is like you put 1 textbox who will have the same name like text1 with a number after it : text1(0).text text1(1).text.

It have many advantage, like you can do some loop :

For i = 0 to ubound(text1) ' Ubound = length of array
   text1(i).text = "HI"
Next i

Array keep order in the form and I think it take less memory but I am not sure.

[filburt1]

As the name states, it is an array of controls. It is quite useful; for example if you need to get 10 strings from a user, you can add 10 TextBoxes on a form and do this:

Dim i As Long
For i = 0 To txtMyArray.Count - 1
    Msgbox "TextBox #" & i & " contained " & txtMyArray(i).Text
Next i

Also, VB has a limit of 255 controls on one form. But a control array counts as only one control.

[Mc Brain]

Originally posted by DaoK

For i = 0 to ubound(text1) ' Ubound = length of array
   text1(i).text = "HI"
Next i

I guess it should be:

For i = 0 to text1.ubound ' Ubound = length of array
   text1(i).text = "HI"
Next i

[filburt1]

Text1.Count

Actually.

[Mc Brain]

Actually, it should be .Ubound and have an errorhandler code, in case some of the indexes don't exist. .Count would only return the number of controls there are.

[DaoK]

Ubound is for variable sorry!!!