[Gambas-user] Inconsistent handling of control names

[Rob]

Apart from the handling of underscores in control names (the 
compiler allows it, so does VB, but if you try to edit a control 
in a form imported from VB with an underscore, it'll force you 
to change the name) I discovered a new problem with the IDE as 
of 1.9.42.

I converted some Access forms to VB forms a while back, and then 
converted those VB forms to Gambas.  I just brought one of those 
forms up in the IDE and tried to edit it.  I noticed a few 
things:

1. The IDE accepts, and will display, controls with a type 
of "Textbox" (as opposed to TextBox.)

2. While you can move, resize and do other things to such 
controls, the name of the control will always be displayed in 
them, even if you change the Text property.

3. At run time, the control will display the Text property you 
have set, not the control name.

So I'm guessing somewhere in the IDE you're doing a 
case-insensitive check of the control type, and in other places 
you're doing a case-sensitive check.  I'd actually rather have 
it error out if it finds a type it doesn't recognize.

And I'd like to be able to have underscores in my control names, 
since the compiler allows them anyway, they're valid in all the 
other Gambas identifiers, and they're so common in VB apps ;)

Rob