I have an application where I would like to create controls on a form at runtime.
I am not certain how many controls and what types of controls I will need until
then, because it is table driven.  I know that I cannot do the following:

Dim newTextBox as New Textbox

All object variables need to be set to point to existing instances of the basic
controls, and the New keyword cannot be used to create new controls.  Are there
any tricks to do this?

Thanks in advance,

Ryan Sutter

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Actually, you are very close. The code "Dim newTextBox as New Textbox" will
work if you create a Text Box, at design time, called newTextBox AND make
it the first member of a control array, i.e. set the Index property to 0.
Then each time you dimension a new Text Box the Index property will be
incremented automatically. You then use the Index property to tell which
Text Box you are accessing.

Load newTextBox(1)

newTextBox(1).Move 2000
newTextBox(1).ZOrder 0
newTextBox(1).Text = "Just Created"
newTextBox(1).Visible = True

Looks like you need one of every possible control on the form at
design-time. Then you could do:

   Dim newTextBox as new text1

Steve.

Lookup ControlTemplate object in VB Help

Jeremy H

I have seen this Problem Addressed in the following way

Create a Control array with one element for each control you want to
create. Then when the time comes to create the controls you simply load
another instance of the control array of the type you want.

This may waste some space (ie declaring controls which you may not use)
but this strategy has been successfuly implememted.