Hello,

I'm looping through controls on a form, focusing on text boxes. If the field
is null and I'd like to throw a pop up letting the user know that this
"required" textbox is not filled out. If I show the user
"control.controlname" then I get the txtThisIsMyField and it doesn't help
the user much. I'd like to reference caption of the fields bound label. Is
there any way of doing that?

Thanks!

Rico wrote in message <Yc9Af.409363$ki.298102@pd7tw2no> :[color=blue]
> Hello,
>
> I'm looping through controls on a form, focusing on text boxes. If the field
> is null and I'd like to throw a pop up letting the user know that this
> "required" textbox is not filled out. If I show the user
> "control.controlname" then I get the txtThisIsMyField and it doesn't help the
> user much. I'd like to reference caption of the fields bound label. Is
> there any way of doing that?
>
> Thanks![/color]

To reach the caption of an attached label, try some of the following
air code

for each ctl in me.controls
if <some condition> then
if ctl.controls.count > 0 then
' to ensure there is an attached label
msgbox ctl.controls(0).caption
else
msgbox ctl.name
end if
end if
next ctl

--
Roy-Vidar

If the control has an attached label, you can read its caption as:
ctl.Controls(0).Caption

--
Allen Browne - Microsoft MVP. Perth, Western Australia.
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> Hello,
>
> I'm looping through controls on a form, focusing on text boxes. If the
> field is null and I'd like to throw a pop up letting the user know that
> this "required" textbox is not filled out. If I show the user
> "control.controlname" then I get the txtThisIsMyField and it doesn't help
> the user much. I'd like to reference caption of the fields bound label.
> Is there any way of doing that?[/color]