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To begin with, I am very new to XOJO, but an old VB6 Programmer. i am trying to covet from VB6 to XOJO.
I have hit a knowledge block. Two basic questions.

  1. Control Arrays: in VB6 can do textbox (1).text, Textbox(2).text, etc and use the controls as an array. is there a similar ability in XOJO.
  2. in VB6 you can have a Table Object. (which can also be an array of tables) How it XOJO do yo make a table with 6 columns that the user can type data into?

thanks for any help.

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  1. look up Control Set - they are similar but not identical to what you had in vb6
  2. listbox
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as an exceptional case you can not use a container control (vb6 = user control) as control set

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List box, got it. thanks -I am getting use to the new objects.

is there a way to set columns =5 and Rows =1000? I was looking in the help file for how to set the properties at runtime.

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if you have the inspector showing on the right you can set the number of columns

you get this to show by clicking in the big blue I button in the upper right until it shows

listboxes dont have a mechanism to pre-configure the number of rows they have in them

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thanks for the reply. Just what I needed to know.

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at design time
only initialvalue, tab is column delimiter, return add a new row.

not by number but maybe copy paste from excel.

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right theres no way to, like in vb, just put rows = 1000 like was asked for
there are work arounds like adding 1000 empty rows in the open event, or putting 1000 empty lines in initial value etc as you mention

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