control arrays - 2 dimmensional?!

[help chris]

I have a few text boxes, each which belong to their own array. I would like to in essense create a 2 dimmensional array having the text boxes below in a top level array, while each one has another set of text boxes in side. In otherwords I have the following:

txtBox0(0), txtBox0(1), txtBox0(2)
txtBox1(0), txtBox1(1), txtBox1(2)
txtBox2(0), txtBox2(1), txtBox2(2)

and I want:

txtBox(0)(0), txtBox(0)(1), txtBox(0)(2)
txtBox(1)(0), txtBox(1)(1), txtBox(1)(2)
etc.

And if that isn't possible, which I don't think it is, but I'd be happy if someone proved me wrong :), Then how about using what I have first above.

and being able to do some thing like:

dim i as integer, j as integer
for j = 0 to 3 step 1
for i = 0 to 3 step 1
txtBox&j(i).text "blah"
next
next



I know that the txtBox&j won't work, but you get my point I hope. Currently i'm creating the text boxes like this:

Load .txtBox0(.txtBox.uBound + 1)


I just need to basically do that double 'for' loop. Any help is most appriciated.

thanks
chris

[Aaron Young]

What you can do with your existing structure is access the Controls Indirectly via their Name in a String variable using the Controls Collection, the same way you can access Fields in a Recordset by specifying the Field Name instead of the Index Number, eg.

Dim i as Integer, j as Integer
for j = 0 to 3
for i = 0 to 3
me.Controls("txtBox" & j).Item(i).Text = "blah"
next
next





Aaron Young
Analyst Programmer
adyoung@win.bright.net
aarony@redwingsoftware.com

[help chris]

thanks, it worked like a charm. Amazing how simple things can be once you know how to do them. Appriciate it.

chris

Indexes for controls don't have to be contiguous, so you could do something like this:


for i = 100 to 300 step 100
for j = n to n1
txtTextBox(i*j) ... yadda
next j
next i




Let me know if it works.

bertovic@pimco.com