Wish Yet another wish.... Attach custom Properties to views...

[Cableguy]

Hi Guys....

Some of you would find this wish useful, others not so much...
I know we can declare types and that when creating custom views, that we can also set custom properties to such views...
But imagine that we have Label, and we need to "attach" a boolean to it, let's say, "IamRed", this would allow to set Label1.IamRed = True, and/or to test the value.
This would differ from declaring a new variable and name it "label1IamRed"...

 

[LucaMs]

I believe that technically it is quite difficult or perhaps impossible. What you would like is to be able to create properties of existing classes at runtime.

What you can do is what Erel does with some of its custom views: create classes that extend them.

You create a MyLabelExt class, pass it any label, and your class will have properties and methods (Subs).

 

[Alexander Stolte]

You have the .tag property?
you can also set these in the designer

 

[LucaMs]

I know this is a "Wish" and Erel will respond if he sees fit, but I'll try to suggest something that perhaps you will find useful.

You could put a Map in the View Tag; you also create a constant for each key in the Map.

This way you could have:

If Label1.Tag.As(Map).Get(C_MY_CONSTANT) = Something Then

 

[LucaMs]

You have the .tag property?
you can also set these in the designer

That's exactly what I was writing