[Gambas-user] Accessing control in different form

[Rob]

On Tuesday 12 August 2003 04:21, Benoit Minisini wrote:
> Contrary to VB, Gambas classes can not refer to an automatically
> instanciated object.

They can, though.  If you put this into FSecond:

dim x as object
dim y as object
x = me.parent
for each y in x.children
	y.hide
next

it will hide all the controls on FMain.  It's just impossible to figure out 
which is which or refer to them directly as x.WidgetName.  Adding a Name 
property to every widget would at least let us write things like

function GetParentWidget(wid as String) as Object
	dim x as object
	dim y as object
	x = me.parent
	for each y in x.children
		if y.name = wid then return y
	next
end

Rob