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I saw this post today by Xojo. I am curious what the “New RemoveControl method” is? Where can I find some docs on it?

Thanks,
Tim

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WebView.RemoveControl

It’s the complement method to AddControl, which allows you to add controls to a WebView at runtime.

So let’s say you want a new WebTextField that’s only around for a specific operation. You’d do something like this:

tf = New WebTextField
tf.Left = 100
tf.Top = 50
tf.Enabled = True
Self.AddControl(tf)

Have tf defined as a property or variable somewhere that you can use it later. Then, when you’re done with it:

Self.RemoveControl(tf)
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Isn’t that what tf.Close is supposed to do?

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Sure. And under the hood it may just call tf.close. But it’s a bit of syntactic sugar to balance the API and make it more consistent, if nothing else. Slightly bugged me that there was one and not the other just because I’m a little crazy like that. By contrast, IIRC, Mobile (iOS at least) has RemoveControl but not Close.

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