skyfox

Is there a way to get the name of a clicked object or an object reference to the object clicked, from within same objects clicked event that can be passed to a Function or sub?

for an example......


Command1_Click()

dim a as string
dim b as object

a = objects name as Command1

set b = object refrence to Command1

' Then send a or b to an external function or sub.

End sub


What I am trying to accomplish is to get the OBJECT's name and a refrence to it without "EXPLICITLY" specifying it at design time, but within it's own click event.

Is this even Possible?

Thanks

passel

Not sure why you would need to do this, but a quick look at the properties of a form in intellisense the first item on the Form's property list is "ActiveControl", which sounds like it could possibly be used.

skyfox

Hi Passel,

Thanks fo the reply,

For the Why I need this.....

Basically I want to have a generic function where certain properties are set for a UserControl during run time. This Function performs certain actions on the object(s) passed to it based on type of UserControl, as well as determinning if the control is part of a control array or a singular control.

Single project (or a single form for that matter) can easily contain 100's of these usercontrols, where some of them only have a single boolean property while others contain both boolean and anlog properties. Each of these latter objects can have as much as 20 ~ 30 parameters (properties) per object. So I wanted to find a generic way to pass an object refrence to this function without having to explicitly code the object name for each instance of these aforementioned UserControls.


About the ActiveControl........


I forgot to mention (and using "Command1" in my original post was a bad exaple on my part), that my UserControl objects does not contain "Can Get Focus" property or "Set Focus" method, nor do I want them to have it. "ACTIVECONTROL" returns the object that currently has focus, and not necessarily the object that was clicked. But "ActiveControl" does what I need to do, but only if objects can get focus.

I was thinking along the line where if there was a way to detect the control under the mouse or to get it's info from it's own click event.

Thanks again for your help.

Cerian Knight

2 possible options:

You can iterate through the controls collection looking for one whose coordinates are under the mouse.

Or, much more complicated, you can subclass for the click (WM_LBUTTONDOWN = &H201) and then perhaps get object from hWnd.

Gruff

What your asking for is a bit odd ball. I know because I chased something like this before


Global Mouse Event for all controls Link

Finally I decided it just wasn't worth the effort.