Hi there,

Ok, I'm in trouble.

I designed an onscreen keyboard for a registration system in restaurants that can be handled by touchscreen (65 buttons).

The text and name of the buttons need to be dynamicly loaded with data from my database.

I can put it in hard code (but I am lame and dont want to write those few lines 65 times).

dim thisButton as clsButton = new clsButton()
thisButton = thisButton.findByPK("btn1")
btn1.text = thisButton.addText
this works fine but I want to put in in a for ... next loop.

The problem occurs when I need to define wich button needs to be set.

I need something like

for ...
strText = "btn" & i
me.controls(strText).text = thisButton.addText
next ....

Offcourse this doesn't work cause strText is string and not of type button.

Who can help me how I can convert the string to type button and still have it pointing to the button I named btn1.

Hope someone in the WWWorld can help me.

This is my final project before I graduate.

Thank you.


Frank

Frank

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Frank Vandeven
Belgium

sure you can get a control from the Controls collection using the control name:
Controls("myButton")
works perfectly... if "myButton" is a standard button, not if as in your case is a clsButton...
BTW2 any reason why you did not use an array of buttons?
best wishes for your graduation,
Marco

Indeed I did it with a array of buttons,

Works great, my code is posted in the vs.net forum.

Thanks,
Frank

Frank