Hi, i was wondering if anyone knew a easy way of nameing a object instance somthing that gets input in to the .text section of a text box?


Thanks

There are languages that will allow you to modify the code as you go, but VB isn’t one of them. (Nor is C...)

Why do you want to do this? (Just curious...)

basicly i need to creat lots of instances of a class called newspaper, in real time. the user can input data in to some text boxes on a form, click on a button at the bottem and it creates a instance of the class. would this be posible at all? or would i have to create a a set number of instances befor, and acess them through an array or something? any ideas?

It is absolutely possible!

One way is to create an array whose type is this object. When you want a new instance of the class, ReDim the array to be 1 element larger, and set that new element as a New instance of the class. (In VB6 this requires redimming with the Preserve keyword, that might be the case still with .NET...)

Another way is to use a Collection. When you add the item to the Collection, you can set the key to a meaningful string, and use that string to gain access to the class later.

Thanks! thats set me on the right track.. heres the final code

ReDim Preserve Nnewspaper(UBound(Nnewspaper) + 1)


This shold presrve all data in the array, and then add 1 to an array called Nnewspaer, using the UBound command to find out the size of the array. im 90% shure it will work, havent tested yet

thanks

Pretty good. But since you are going to be using the new-element index more than once, I like