ContainerControls in ControlArray?

General
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I’ve recently started heavily using ContainerControls for much of my UI layout. They are a great way to compartmentalize and re-use UI widgets etc.

But I discovered that they cannot be made into a ControlArray… so if I build a UI that has (in my case) 5 identical sections (for setting up channels on a device - the device has 5 channels that can all independently do things), I can’t put these sections into an array, and instead am forced to manually mess with each one individually.

This stinks.

A (https://xojo.com/issue/4169)>]feature request for this functionality has been out there for 5 years, and it is ranked 49th in popularity. Please sign on if you think this feature would save you some time.

Thanks!

<https://xojo.com/issue/4169>

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Since you can embed them dynamically just keep an array of references to them

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Thanks @Norman Palardy . Good suggestion. MUCH cleaner code now.

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They’re not “controls” in the conventional sense (they dont inherit from Control or Rect Control) so getting them into a “control array” is very unlikely
They’re kind of mutants :slight_smile: