>I have a form ,which at rutime, I want to change the caption of each control, based on a parameter passed to the form.
>I am trying to do this in the INIT of the form with the following:
>for i = 1 to controlcount
> thisform.CONTROLS(lnFor).caption = somevalue
>ENDFOR
>
>Now this works fine for anything other than Contained controls. i.e. if I have a Pageframe, it does not give me access to each of the controls within the pageframe.
>
>Is there any way of accessing ALL controls on a form( .i.e. going to lowest level) ?
>
>Regards,
>Gerard

Hi,

You can use a method that call itself recursively to parse all controls

In your init, call the routine, passing your top-level container (the form) as a parameter
THISFORM.ProcessAll( THIS)

Here's some code I use in an app for something similar

*-- Form.ProcessAll method
LPARAMETERS toContainer
LOCAL lnLoop

IF PEMSTATUS( toContainer, "PageCount", 5)
*-- we are in a page frame, so just process each page.
FOR lnLoop = 1 TO toContainer.PageCount
THISFORM.ScatterContainer( toContainer.Pages( lnLoop))
ENDFOR
ELSE
*-- we are in some other type of container, so check each object
FOR lnLoop = 1 TO toContainer.ControlCount
DO CASE
CASE PEMSTATUS( toContainer.Controls( lnLoop), "Caption", 5)
******** Do whatever here
toContainer.Controls( lnLoop) = THISFORM.CaptionToUse
********
CASE PEMSTATUS( toContainer.Controls( lnLoop), "PageCount", 5)
*-- Object is a pageframe, so process it
THISFORM.ScatterContainer( toContainer.Controls( lnLoop))
CASE PEMSTATUS( toContainer.Controls( lnLoop), "ControlCount", 5)
*-- Object contains things, so process it
THISFORM.ScatterContainer( toContainer.Controls( lnLoop))
ENDCASE
ENDFOR
ENDIF

RETURN


This might not work for all controls (maybe not grids) but you can add the extra bits.