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Italian Pete - 27 Jun 2005 13:35 GMT

How do you read an index value of a control knowing the control's name?

Thanks

Pete

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Alex Dybenko - 27 Jun 2005 17:14 GMT

Hmm, what index you mean? tab index or something else?

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> How do you read an index value of a control knowing the control's name?
>
> Thanks
>
> Pete

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Italian Pete - 28 Jun 2005 09:49 GMT

Alex,
I mean the index given to each control on a form, for example:

Me.Controls(5)

where the index 5 might be the index value of a text box "txtInput".

From the index, I can find the name of a control (Me.Controls(0).Name) but
how do I do it the other way round?

Many thanks

> Hmm, what index you mean? tab index or something else?
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David C. Holley - 28 Jun 2005 17:33 GMT

Try Me.Controls("controlName").index

> Alex,
> I mean the index given to each control on a form, for example:
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>>>Pete

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Bas Cost Budde - 28 Jun 2005 19:54 GMT

Interesting! Why?

The plain search technique comes to mind (air code):

function getControlIndex(cName as string)as long
dim i as long
for i=0 to controls.count
    if controls(i).name=cname then
        getcontrolindex=i
        exit for
    endif
next
end function

> Alex,
> I mean the index given to each control on a form, for example:
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>>>
>>>Pete

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