Create PushButton at Runtime

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I need to create some debug stuff in my code but I don’t want the debug controls or code to be included in the Final build and I do not want to have to comment it all out either.

I know you can create controls at runtime so how do I create a PushButton at runtime. I tried the following code in the Window.Open Event but the button does not appear:

#If DebugBuild Dim d As New PushButton d.Visible = True d.Top = 0 d.Left = 0 d.Width = 90 d.Height = 20 d.Caption = "Debug Menu" #EndIf

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make a container control with a button and embed it at runtime.

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How do I do that?

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[quote=173801:@Charles Fasano]I need to create some debug stuff in my code but I don’t want the debug controls or code to be included in the Final build and I do not want to have to comment it all out either.

I know you can create controls at runtime so how do I create a PushButton at runtime. I tried the following code in the Window.Open Event but the button does not appear:

#If DebugBuild Dim d As New PushButton d.Visible = True d.Top = 0 d.Left = 0 d.Width = 90 d.Height = 20 d.Caption = "Debug Menu" #EndIf[/quote]

You need to first have one PushButton as a control set to be able to create new members that way.

Or to place one on a ContainerControl which you make a new instance with embedwithin.

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in some code in window:

dim c as new MyContainerControl c.embedwithin(self, x, y, c.width, c.height)

x and y are there coordinates. Self is the current window.

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There is no way to fulfill these requirements exactly. There will always be some residue left over in the built application, unless you remove the debug stuff manually.

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Sure there is.
If there are NO references to a class (like a container control) in the compiled code the class will be stripped out.
So the embedding code Christian posted above needs to be wrapped in a #if DebugBuild / #endif.
Then when building a release there are (or should be) no actual references to the control & the container will be stripped and the code that existed in the #if debugbuild will not be compiled in as it won’t even exist.

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Thanks, that’s good to know.

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You do have to watch you dont do something like

if x IsA ClassIExpectToBeStrippedOut

as that will count as a reference and retain the class