Also would be easier to set these properties on the object before you add it:

oComboBox.Top = nTop ComboBox.Left = nLeft oComboBox.Visible = .T.

On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 3:19 PM Eric Selje Eric@saltydogllc.com wrote:

The 'name' is read only after the object is created. You have to name it when you create it, like you had in the commented out code:

toForm.AddObject("oComboBox", (cname))

Except don't put cName in (), because that will try to interpolate cName as a variable. And the parameters are reversed, it's name first and then object name.

So...

toForm.AddObject(cName, "oComboBox") && This should work

Eric

On Mon, Jun 17, 2024 at 3:02 PM Joe Yoder joe@wheypower.com wrote:

...

I have been trying to come up with simple code to let me generate and configure ComboBoxes in code. I have succeeded in creating one combo and controlling its top and left properties by passing parameters but when I try to pass in a name things don't work. Here is the procedures code in a file named Try:

• Procedure to create a form

PROCEDURE CreateForm PUBLIC oForm oForm = CREATEOBJECT("Form") oForm.Caption = "My Form" oForm.Show() ENDPROC

• Procedure to add a ComboBox to the form

PROCEDURE AddComboBoxToForm(toForm, nTop, nLeft, cname) LOCAL oComboBox oComboBox = CREATEOBJECT("ComboBox") oComboBox.AddItem("Item 1") oComboBox.AddItem("Item 2")

• toForm.AddObject("oComboBox", (cname)) toForm.oComboBox.name = cname toForm.oComboBox.Top = nTop toForm.oComboBox.Left = nLeft toForm.oComboBox.Visible = .T.

ENDPROC

The code that calls it in a file named Joe follows:

• Call the procedures from the first file

DO try && load the procedures

• Create a form

CreateForm()

• Add a ComboBox to the form at position (40, 40)

AddComboBoxToForm(oForm, 40, 40, "oComboBox1")

• Add a second ComboBox to the form at position (80, 80)

AddComboBoxToForm(oForm, 80, 80, "oComboBox2")

I have been working with CoPilot to generate the code but it keep telling me that I need to create a custom class using the visual tools. I would appreciate a second opinion from real experts!

Thanks in advance, Joe

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