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How to know if a control allows entry
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05/01/2009 15:47:32
Jay Johengen
Altamahaw-Ossipee, North Carolina, United States
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Visual FoxPro
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Forms & Form designer
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01371118
Message ID:
01371199
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>>>>>>>If I'm looping through all the controls on a form, is there something I can check to see if it is a "valid" control, in that it can accept entry from the user? I do not want labels, containers, images, etc. I only want things like textboxes, checkboxes, combos, etc. Do they all have some property/method that I can check for?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Value.
>>>>>>ControlSource.
>>>>>
>>>>>Damn. Almost. It could include buttons and stuff like that too. Maybe there is no common property/method for the controls I want, but not the others.
>>>>
>>>>GotFocus? Except you could filter out containers if you don't want to include those...
>>>
>>>What about Enabled?
>>
>>Which classes you need to consider? Containers have enabled property, shapes have it too.
>
>Looks like I'll just have to create a list. Stupid really. You would think there would be something they all have in common that the others don't.

How about ControlSource?
I think (not sure) that only controls that can be bound to some Filed had it.
Against Stupidity the Gods themselves Contend in Vain - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
The only thing normal about database guys is their tables.
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