Re: dynamically creating pages and accesing them in VFP

shah <shahjagat@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

[snip]

>And when I try to set any propery as follows -
>
>thisform.pageframe1.&lpagename.anyproperty - && it does not work.
                               ^
     This period terminates the &.  You need a second one to separate
the names.  Assuming that you are trying to access a propery of page1,
          thisform.pageframe1.&lpagename.anyproperty
resolves to
          thisform.pageframe1.Page1anyproperty
whereas
          thisform.pageframe1.&lpagename..anyproperty
resolves to
          thisform.pageframe1.Page1.anyproperty

>For any property I want to access, I am doing the following
>
> For i =1 to 5
>  lpage="Page"+alltrim(str(i))+".visible=.t."
> next
>
> And then
>
>thisform.pageframe1.&lpage  && this works.

     It is not obvious that this is an assignment.  Do not do it.
Think of the poor maintenance programmer, who might even be you.

>I am sure there is a more elegant way to do this....

     Just add another period.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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