Creating Objects

How do I create object arrays from nothing? I'm aware that I can create an object that already exists over and over, but can I do it without putting one on the form first?

SOmething like this maybe ?
dim a as integer 'a beeing number of controls
for i=0 to a
dim text as textbox
set text=controls.add("vb.textbox","text"+cstr(i))
set text.container=form1 'container form
with text
.top=.....
.left=.....
'positionning and properties
.visible=true
next i

SpaceFrog, that puts one control. The problem that I think you will run into is that the index property of a control is read-only... So I am not sure if you can...

For example if you add this line :


.Index = 0


in the with block (which is missing an end with) you get a compile error saying that you can't assign a value to a read-only property. So I conclude that you probably can't (but you never know ;) )

Have u tried with set instruction to set index at time of creation ?
I'm noy at work so I cannot test ...


Set text=controls.add("vb.textbox","text"+cstr(i))
Set text.index = 0

You can't. The Control array in VB must be created at design time.