Number of Controls - Application Browser vs. Script

[Glen Bojsza]

Yes it looks like I would need to create a filter to account for all the
datagrid objects... this would work but I will have to remember never to
create a group that starts with "dg".

thanks.

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 2:39 PM, Pete <pete at mollysrevenge.com> wrote:

> Hi Glen,
> I haven't found a way to exclude them from being returned by any of the
> standard methods of looping through the controls in a script but I have
> managed to identify which controls are part of the datagrid.
>
> If it helps, you can see the structure of a datagrid by selecting it, then
> in the message box, type:
>
> set the selectgroupedcontrols of selobj() to true
>
> Then select the card that the datagrid is on in the Application browser (if
> it's already selected, you'll probably have to refresh the right pane by
> right-clicking and selecting refresh.
>
> Your datagrid won't work until you restore it to normal condition by "set
> the selectgroupedcontrols of selobj() to false"
>
> You'll see that many (but not all) of the datagrid controls have names that
> begin with "dg" so you can start by excluding those.  After that, you have
> to deal with any columns that you have customised to contain controls and
> the column headings since they won't have names that begin with "dg"
> (unless you force yourself to do that).  I do that by checking if either
> "dgList" or "dgHeader" is in the long name of the control.  So far that has
> worked reliably for me.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
>
> Pete
> Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Glen Bojsza <gbojsza at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have a stack with a single card and several objects that I have placed
> on
> > it ... including a datagrid.
> >
> > In the application browser it shows 58 controls for the card (all the
> ones
> > I expected).
> >
> > From script
> >
> > put the number of controls of card 1 of this stack
> >
> > I get 202 controls (which I would guess has to do with the datagrid).
> >
> > Is it possible via script to get the same controls that the Application
> > browser reports?
> >
> > thanks
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