Hi,

My Question is :

Normally a form in VB Project supports 254 controls, but when create control arrays for a particular control, it creates more. How is it possible and what is the maximum limit of control arryas in a form?

Expecting reply.

Ramkumar

A.D.Ramkumar

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Ramkumar A D

I haven't looked into this, but I would guess that each array can have 254 controls.
I also would suspect that possibly there is a limit of 254 control arrays.

This (if it is so) would have to do with the number of distinct values that 1 byte can represent. The form would have 1 byte to uniquely identify each top-level object on its face. The indexing mechanism of the controls collection would be 1-byte.

If that is indeed so, the the control arrays would be the type of item held in that collection, so there could only be 254 of them.

Hi,

As i have tested a form supports 254 controls but if copy a control and go on pasting it in the same form, it takes more than 254 controls and as for as i have tested above 1000 control arrays.

Ramkumar

A.D.Ramkumar

The number of elements in a control array is determined by the Index property for that object. This property will not exist for objects unless in a control array. The maximum value for index is 32767 (2^16 minus 1), including the zero(th) element this makes 32768 (2^16) elements for a control array.

Although in adding controls to a control array will automatically provide a successive list of index values for these objects (0,1,2,3,4....) this property can be set by the developer manually for each object, this can be useful if some controls are in the incorrect order, visually.

All the Best.