GroupBox and ContainerControl need method to find nested control by name or tag

DrScott

The current method of finding a control within a GroupBox (or ContainerControl) is insufficient if they contain many controls. It requires the programmer to keep a list of the indices of every control added as they are added, one by one. This will definitely be a problem if the programmer wants to add several existing controls to a new GroupBox (or ContainerControl) by dragging them all at once into it -- the indices of the controls would be unknown to the programmer. It also makes the code harder to understand unless an enumeration is created with all of the indices of the controls.

Please add a method to retrieve a particular control in a GroupBox (or ContainerControl) by name or, if that is not easily done, add a "tag" member to each control so that controls can be searched by tag.

rgb

Hi @DrScott

You add this method for the moment:

create method named "FindControl(x as String) As Boolean

code text:

If Me.CountControls() > 0 Then

For i As Integer = 0 To Me.CountControls() - 1

Var b As Control = Me.ControlAt(i)

If b.Name = x Then

Return True

End If

Next i

End If

Return False

DrScott

rgb

Thank you. That’s a good idea.

Garry

A good workaround @rgb, thanks.

I've added a framework mechanism to solve this for the next release: https://feedback.objo.dev/feature/293