How to clone a Control

General
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I know how to clone a control *, but I have a problem with the original one (the one set in the window at design time.

In a loop I add some controls and set their name, location,…

But, in the end, I have one too many, the original one. It can be either a TextField/TextArea with a Label, a PopupMenu, etc.

The Method design is as follow:
a. Open a Text file with instructions,
b. In a While Not Ctrls_TIS.EOF / Wend,
a. I New a Control,
b. I set some of its Properties (Name, x,y,w,h, must add a Label or not, Control Name.
c. When I am out of the loop, I have the first Control(s) to dispose (remove); I cannot (I think) move it out of my window because with Tab(s), the user can access to it.

Ideas ?

  • And my Method to do that works fine, I get my Controls when I get the hand at Window1.Open time.

There is something I lost (forget) while designing that window code.

Ideas ?

Edit:

The code below leads to TWO PushButtons in the target window.

Dim pb As PushButton pb = New PushButton1 pb.Caption = "Clone" pb.Left = Me.Left + Me.Width + 10

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make its visible property to false.

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And it will no more be accessibles ?

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Hi Emile,

Invoke the close method on those rectcontrols you want to dispose (making them no availables and freeing the memory allocated to them).

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I will try.

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I also set the readonly property to true to be sure, but yes the control is no more in the tab order.

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Thanks.

Setting the Control out of the window view (say at x = -10000 for example) is not enough, the Tab will find the Control not in the Window visible area.

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@Emile Schwarz — Setting both Control.Enabled and Control.Visible to false should prevent Tab from stopping on your control.