User Input Opens Window

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I’m currently trying to have the user type in the text field to open up the specified window as all the windows in the application. Currently, I just have a bunch of else if statements for each acronym but I was wondering if there was a better way to optimize the length of this code as I have over 50+ windows and don’t want to continue updating this search field as I add more windows. Here is what I attempted to try but I was it wasn’t working.

Try
  If TextFieldItemSelect.Text <> "" Then
    Var window As String = TextFieldItemSelect.Text + "Window"
    Var edit As New window
    edit.ShowModal
  End If
Catch
  MessageBox("The Selected Item Category is not currently available")
End Try
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Unfortunately this sort of thing is not allowed in Xojo. The name of the window you want to open can’t be a string variable that you built at runtime from user input. The whole name has to be given in the source code.

You could replace these with a Select Case statement. It wouldn’t solve the problem you’re looking to solve, but it would be easier to read and update, e.g.:

Var windowname As String = TextFieldItemSelect.Text + "Window" //<---- String variable

Select Case windowname

Case "FooBarWindow" 
    Var edit as New FooBarWindow  //<---- Source code literal
    edit.ShowModal

Case  "BizBazWindow"
    Var edit as New BizBazWindow
    edit.ShowModal

// etc.

Else 
    MessageBox("The Selected Item Category is not currently available")

End Select
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I’m willing to bet that they all look more or less the same.
Might it be better to have a Window that changes mode based upon a property?
You still need a select case as part of the window, but I suspect that the controls displayed will have a lot in common.

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I do not know the context, but I can see a ListBox with a Window name by cell and a reference to that Window in the CellTag.

When the user click in one entry that window is displayed (using the Reference in the CellTag to show it…).