controlids and controlnames properties

Richmond richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Mon Dec 15 16:45:58 EST 2014


On 15/12/14 23:06, Peter Haworth wrote:
> A few days ago I was bemoaning the fact that there wasn't a way to get a
> list of control ids or names without a "repeat with x=1 to the number of
> controls of...."
>
> By chance, I just discovered there is a controlids property and a
> controlnames property that return the ids/names of all controls in a card
> or group.
>
> There is no mention of them in the dictionary.  They aren't there in LC 5.5
> and are in LC 6.1 (don't have a copy of 6.0 so can't check there).
>
> I can't find mention of them in any release notes either although I haven't
> searched them extensively.
>
> Am I the only one that somehow missed the introduction of these properties?
>
> Pete
>

No, I missed them as well :/  Thanks for the heads up!

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