[Gambas-user] How do I directly access the child controls in a panel container.

[T Lee Davidson]

On 01/10/2015 11:08 AM, Jørn Erik Mørne wrote:
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>> Hello,
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>> One can address a control on another form with fMain.txtHello.Text. This
>> syntax also works for other container objects. I have a form with a panel
>> control. There are several controls within the panel. To avoid naming
>> conflicts I want to keep the panel controls separate from the parent form.
>> Something like panel.txtEdit.Text would be great but, it does not work. I
>> can get the "children" collection of the panel and get the control names.
>> That does not help. I need to get to the control and use its properties and
>> events. Is there a way to do this?
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>> Thanks
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> This is the way: Panel1.Children[1].Text
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The documentation for Container.Children says that it, "Returns a collection [...]" But it does not return a Collection (class).

That's too bad. The ability to do Panel1.Children["TextBox1"].Text would be nice.