[Gambas-user] Get the object of a component by name.

[Jussi Lahtinen]

I see only Load method for Class!? Is the "instance" hidden..? Or in what
version?


Jussi

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 2:00 AM, Tobias Boege <taboege at ...626...> wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Feb 2016, Matias De lellis wrote:
> > > So, what I read out of your mail is that you have one object Firmata1
> which
> > > has a certain configuration. You now want to add controls dynamically
> to the
> > > Form which should inherit Firmata1's configuration by obtaining a
> reference
> > > to the Firmata1 object.
> >
> >
> > Not completely dynamic.. After completing write the controls the idea is
> just change the list of properties of the controls placed on the form. (Not
> writing a single line of code more after design forms)
> >
> > >  2. Can't you pass the Firmata1 object to the constructors of the
> controls?
> >
> > Would be ideal, but I do not see how. Justly my idea was to add a
> property representing the instance name, and get the instance itself from
> that. http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/comp/gb/class/instance seems ideal but
> not work here..
> >
>
> Class["Name"].Instance returns the auto-instance of an auto-creatable (i.e.
> Create Static[0]) class. Unless you class is Create Static, this will not
> give you any object at all.
>
> > >  3. (A refinement of 2.) Make the Firmata class a Container object and
> > >     create the controls inside the container Firmata1. This way, the
> > >     controls can access their parent Firmata1 and its configuration
> > >     directly. This is how the DataSource control from gb.db.form works,
> > >     if you are familiar with that.
> >
> >
> > I will investigate this option..
> >
>
> If you don't need to create controls at runtime, i.e. the layout of your
> form is complete at compile time, then this would be the way to go. I
> attach
> a small project which shows how it's done.
>
> Regards,
> Tobi
>
> [0] http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/lang/createstatic
>
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