Thanks for the tip, but I'll still need to be able to understand how to create them from scratch for myself...<br><br>It's now a big learning curve to get as far as classes and collections to achieve this in VB2010.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 10 September 2010 11:06, Poultney, Gordon A <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Poultney.Gordon.A@edumail.vic.gov.au">Poultney.Gordon.A@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Just make up your control array in VB6 first.<br>
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Then import the project into <a href="http://VB.NET" target="_blank">VB.NET</a><br>
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The object names change but you can still access them via standard array notation.<br>
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I've finally bitten the bullet, crawled out my comfort zone (and used several other clichés) in moving from comfortable ol' threadbare VB6 into shiny new VB2010 and the transition is not as smooth as I'd hoped it would be.<br>
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The first hurdle I ran into was finding that my favourite old control arrays have been killed and now I need convoluted complex collections to achieve nearly the same thing. I read of a rumour that control arrays (wherein VB manages the necessary classes and collections behind the scenes) would be reinstated in VB but it seems not to be happening.<br>
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And it seems default properties no longer work, e.g. textbox2="Fred" has to be fully spelled out as textbox2.text="Fred".<br>
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Sigh. I suppose I'll get used to it in time (after all, I did manage to get from QB4.5 to Visual Basic 1.0), but for a quick hack I still fall back to VB6 to get the job done.<br>
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