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I have a generic routine which scrolls through all the controls on a card. Is there a control property I can query which will tell the routine what kind of control the "n"th control actually is ie. is it a field, is it a checkbox, is it a button?

The different control types are treated differently by the routine so it must be able to evaluate the control type. The "style" property is close but not quite and I have been unable to discern a "type" property.

I could of course add a custom property to each control but this is not particularly elegant.

Alex

Hi Alex,

you can check:
word 1 of the name of control X

"the name of ..." will return something like:
field "Name of field"
button "name of button"
scrollbar "Name of scrollbar
etc.

So the first word is what you are looking for

If that is a button you can then check "the style of control X" which wil then
return "menu", "checkbox" etc.

Hope that helps.


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Klaus

Hi Klaus

Just what I was looking for - thanks

Alex