>>I find myself in form design needing to do following quite a lot:
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>>1. I have set up a no. of fields on the form
>>2. Now, I want to automatically set thr 'Tag' property of
>> every 'label' field to the associated field's name
>>
>>e.g. My label fields are : Fld1,Fld2,Fld3,Fld4
>>
>>I then want the tag property of each of these fields to be:
>> fld1,fld2,fld3,fld4 etc.
>>
>>Every time I set up a form, I have to go into each field manually and change the tag. I reckon there must be a better way...maybe using a builder but I have never used these .
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Gerard
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>Gerard, select your multiple controls in Form Designer and set their Tag property to:
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>=IIF("." $ this.controlsource,SUBSTR(this.controlsource, AT(".",this.controlsource)+1), this.controlsource)
I hope I understand you right - are you talking about .Tag property of textboxes or .Caption(Tag?) property of the labels associated with those textboxes?
Nick Neklioudov
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3 times Microsoft MVP - Visual FoxPro
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