Changing Name of View

[TedN]

The name of a View created with the Designer can be changed in the Designer.
How does one change the name of a view which was created programatically?

Is there something like lblTemp.Name = "lblFirstName"


Thanks,

 

[klaus]

You must change the name where ever it is in the code.
You can, in the IDE, select the name and with Find change the name with Replace All.
Check the Match whole word.

Best regards.

 

[agraham]

Views don't actually have a name. Variables containing references to a View are named but the Views themselves are anonymous. The following code fragment is legal, but confusing.

Dim Label1, Label2, Label3 As Label
...
Label1.Initialize("Label1")
Label2.Initialize("Label2")
...
Label3 = Label1
Label1 = Label2
Label2 = Label3

Also you can do this

For i = 0 To 9
    Dim Lbl As Label ' makes a new Label instance
    Lbl.Initialize("Lbl")
    Activity.AddView(Lbl, 0, 40*i, 100, 30)
Next

To identify an individual View you will need to use its Tag property that can usefully contain any sort of Object, including a custom Type.

 

[TedN]

Thanks for your replies. The problem I have is that my app needs to allow the user to create views.

So I'm trying to find a way that users can provide their own name for a view.

If say "Label" is clicked on a pull down menu I can get the code to create a label, but I obviously need to provide a name, say lblTemp, in the Dim statement, and then Initialize it, etc.

The problem is that if the user creates a second label it will have the same name as the first, i.e. lblTemp.

Is there a way around this problem.

Thanks

 

[kickaha]

If the label (in your example) is created in a sub, the name can be the same every time, as when you dim the label it creates a new instance of it, once the label is created the name is not important.

if you need to link the label to the name entered by the user you could use a map With the user-entered name as the key.

 

[TedN]

I've not used Map before. If I understand correctly I could pair each instance of lblTemp (value) with the user's label name (key).

I'll play around with this and get a better understanding.

One quick question, can a label's property be applied to a key, e.g. if a user entered lblDate as the name for a label which is entered as a key in the map, can say Top be applied to lblDate, i.e. lblDate.Top.

Thanks

 

[TedN]

OK. I see how Map works now. Ignore my last question.

This should help a lot now.


Thanks