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[Benoit Minisini]

On Monday 19 January 2004 16:28, Rob wrote:
> On Monday 19 January 2004 10:10, Benoit Minisini wrote:
> > > Unless I'm mistaken, you would need to either create those
> > > at runtime or assign them one at a time to an object array,
> > > which is Gambas control groups' chief weakness compared to
> > > VB control arrays.
> >
> > Weakness ? Mmmm... VB has control arrays only because it
> > couldn't create controls dynamically (at least until VB6).
> > Otherwise, I find them stupid and useless.
>
> Well, the point is, in VB you can make control arrays both in the
> form editor and in code.  In Gambas you can only make them in
> code.  Granted you can only *use* them in code in either one,
> but if (as one of my clients did) you have 90 textboxes on a
> form and you need to insert a bit of data into each one
> sequentially.... in VB it's 4 or 5 lines of code, in Gambas it's
> 94 or 95.
>
> Rob
>

Your client can use the Tag property intelligently, and the FOR EACH 
instruction on Container.Children, and maybe he won't need 95 lines of code. 
I think its application may be not well written :-). These 90 textboxes must 
have something in common!

Regards,

-- 
Benoit Minisini
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