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Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 4:29 am 

Dynamically creating controls on a form

Hello HB++ Community,

Is there any way for me to create additional, say, buttons on a form once my application is running?

I want to add more buttons in my app on a Palm TX when the DIA is hidden. How can I do this?

Also I would like to programatically refer to each control by an index like this:

lst = RefControlByName("List" + Int2Str(index))

Is this possible? Is there a way to dynamically refer to a user control as in this fictional function that I call RefControlByName?

-Jonathan

Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 9:32 am 

Hi,

You can't dynamically create controls. Actually Palm OS does allow you create some controls, but in a so limited way that we chose not to implement this in HB++.

You can't either refer to a control from a string containing its name. A control name is no more that a variable name. HB++ is not a reflective language, variable names are lost at compilation.

However, you can probably achieve what you want using an array of controls. Refer to "Home > Language Reference > Design Time Properties > Index" in the documentation.

Pascal

Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 11:43 pm 

That's too bad. But thank you for the advise.