Declaring control array

[Nathan]

If you're wondering why I post so many questions, it's because I want to
make an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records. But because I post so
many, I try to make them simple. Here is (I hope) a simple one:

I've declared a "control array" just after the WFD generated code like this:

Dim LabelArray() as Label = {Label0, Label1, Label2, Label3, Label4, Label5}

But when I try to do something like this:

\\
Private Sub FillLabels
dim a as integer
For a = 0 to 5
Msgbx(LabelArra y(a).Text)
Next
End Sub
\\

I get an "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error. If I
put the Dim statement inside the subroutine, it works fine. Am I doing
something wrong in declaring the array to have class scope?

Once again, thanks for the help.

Nathan

[Tom Leylan]

"Nathan" <nk************ *********@softh ome.net> wrote...

I'm guessing that as a workaround I could delete the labels from the form
designer and insert them via code (as per Cor's post), but surely there's another way to make this work.

You don't have to go to all that trouble.

Your dim statement shouldn't include the assignment of the labels. Objects
aren't created line-by-line while stepping through the code. If you dim the
array in your form and add the labels to it in form_load I would be shocked
if it doesn't work.

Tom

[Cor]

Hi Nathan,

I did not know what you wanted,
If you want this, the labelarea has to be global
just beneath the Window form designer code
private labelarea(6) as labels

Somewhere else but I think the best place is the formload event you
labelarea(0) = label0
labelarea(1)=la bel1
etc,

Then your loop works everywhere.

I hope this helps?

Cor

[Nathan]

Thanks Cor and Tom. I figured something like that would work; however, is
there a way to add multiple controls to array in one line, without doing it
line by line? To be more truthful with you, I have tons of controls that
need to be added to eleven different arrays. If I must do it line by line,
I can just stick those lines of code in their own sub in a minimized region
where they are out of the way. I was just wondering if there's a way to do
it all in one line, as it is when initializing the array.

"Cor" <no*@non.com> wrote in message
news:%2******** *******@TK2MSFT NGP11.phx.gbl.. .

Hi Nathan,

I did not know what you wanted,
If you want this, the labelarea has to be global
just beneath the Window form designer code
private labelarea(6) as labels

Somewhere else but I think the best place is the formload event you
labelarea(0) = label0
labelarea(1)=la bel1
etc,

Then your loop works everywhere.

I hope this helps?

Cor

[David]

On 2004-01-04, Nathan <nk************ *********@softh ome.net> wrote:

Thanks Cor and Tom. I figured something like that would work;
however, is there a way to add multiple controls to array in one line,
without doing it line by line? To be more truthful with you, I have
tons of controls that need to be added to eleven different arrays. If
I must do it line by line, I can just stick those lines of code in
their own sub in a minimized region where they are out of the way. I
was just wondering if there's a way to do it all in one line, as it is
when initializing the array.

Private LabelArray() As Label

Private Sub Form_Load(...)
LabelArray = new Label() { Label1, Label2, Label3, Label4}
End Sub

--
David
dfoster at
hotpop dot com

[Nathan]

Once again, thank you!

"David" <df*****@127.0. 0.1> wrote in message
news:sl******** ************@wo ofix.local.dom. ..

On 2004-01-04, Nathan <nk************ *********@softh ome.net> wrote:

Thanks Cor and Tom. I figured something like that would work;
however, is there a way to add multiple controls to array in one line,
without doing it line by line? To be more truthful with you, I have
tons of controls that need to be added to eleven different arrays. If
I must do it line by line, I can just stick those lines of code in
their own sub in a minimized region where they are out of the way. I
was just wondering if there's a way to do it all in one line, as it is
when initializing the array.

Private LabelArray() As Label

Private Sub Form_Load(...)
LabelArray = new Label() { Label1, Label2, Label3, Label4}
End Sub

--
David
dfoster at
hotpop dot com

[Armin Zingler]

"David" <df*****@127.0. 0.1> schrieb

Private LabelArray() As Label

Private Sub Form_Load(...)
LabelArray = new Label() { Label1, Label2, Label3, Label4}
End Sub

The same I wrote the day before. ;-)
--
Armin

http://www.plig.net/nnq/nquote.html
http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

[Cor]

Hi Armin,

The same I wrote the day before. ;-)

Stimt aber not complete, I was knocking on my head when I saw Davids answer,
that he made as addition on mine and remembered direct your answer.

The difference is that you did not tell that the array had to be declared
global.

(I never thought that it should go because of all the documentation and
samples in this newsgroup accoording control arrays)

However when I saw Tom's message I thought also why not.

And it is of course a nice solution I think.

Cor

[Armin Zingler]

"Cor" <no*@non.com> schrieb

The same I wrote the day before. ;-)

Stimt aber not complete, I was knocking on my head when I saw Davids
answer, that he made as addition on mine and remembered direct your
answer.

The difference is that you did not tell that the array had to be
declared global.

"global"? At class level?
Nathan wrote: "I've declared a "control array" just after the WFD generated
code like this:", so I assumed it is declared as at class level (as a
field).

--
Armin

http://www.plig.net/nnq/nquote.html
http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html

[Cor]

Hi Armin,

WFD

You are right, maybe it is because I never declare something there with Dim

Again a long thread for nothing

(Not about)

(But I still find it a nice solution so I learned from it)

:-))

Cor