Creating lots of buttons using code.

General
1

I need to create a Window fills with button that i can click and the value of the caption/label will be update to a textfield or textarea.

I already create the Window and when this window is open, i want to use code to create few rows of button. How do i accomplish this?

2

To dynamically add controls to a window you’ll want to either use Control Sets or ContainerControls.

3

where in the language reference or guide where i can find the information??

4

what i want to do is open a table, find out how many item is there, then dynamically create a button, assign the value from the table and then move on to the next record and repeat.

5

User Guide Book 2: User Interface, Chapter 2: Desktop, Section 16: Control Sets and Dynamic Controls

In the Language Reference, ContainerControl.EmbedWithin shows how to add a ContainerControl to a window at run-time.

6

i got it working now. i define a property for pb as cmdChar which is my control set.

dim rs as RecordSet
  dim x as Integer, y as integer
  dim vSQL as string = "SELECT * FROM tblSpecialChars WHERE ShowYN=1 ORDER BY Sequence"
  
  rs = DoDBOpenRS(vSQL)
  if rs<>nil then
    While Not rs.eof
      x=x+1
      pb = new cmdChar
      pb.caption= rs.Field("Character").StringValue
      SELECT CASE x
      CASE 1 to 10
        pb.top=10
        IF x=1 then y=0
      CASE 11 to 20
        pb.top=50
        IF x=11 then y=0
      END SELECT
      y=y+1
      pb.left=40 * y
      pb.visible=true
      rs.MoveNext
    Wend
    rs.Close
  END IF
  cmdChar(0).Visible=false