[Gambas-user] Parsing through all controls of a form

[Rob Kudla]

On Thu January 19 2006 11:17, johnf wrote:
> Could you add an extra - tag property. We would have two (2)
> tag like properties.  So not to break older coding maybe you
> could add the new property with a different name - like tag2.

You know, the Tag property is a variant.  Nothing stopping you 
from sticking a collection in there.... something I've done in 
the past.  Then you can put as much data as you like into the 
tag.

  button1.Tag = NEW Collection
  button1.Tag["Name"] = "Button1"
  button1.Tag["Otherinfo"] = "Fhqwhgads"

  Message.Info(button1.Tag["Otherinfo"])

This was also the case in VB, but since a number of the things we 
commonly do in Gambas with the tag property (control name, index 
or other identifier for when we're iterating over the controls 
on the form) are available through other means in VB, most 
developers just treat it as a string.

Rob