Creating an array of controls

It might sound like a imple question, but when you have no help files, its a bit of a handicap.


How would I go about creating an array of winsock controls? I want to have multiple clients connect to a server, and throwing a bunch of individual winsock controls on a form seems like a lot of repeated code.


Salt

Create 2 controls on the form.
Change the (name) of the second control to the first one.
It will ask you if you want to create a control array (say yes).
They are now distinguished by the Index property.
You can just continue this process.

Note: if you just copy an existing control on a form and paste it, it will do the same thing (so you don't have to change the name of each new one manually).

Hi,

Try the usual method for creating Control arrays.
Should work, unless something special about 'Winsock' controls.

The standard method is like this: Lets say a command button (CBtn1):
Add one btn to the form. Change the name to CBtn1 (for ex).
Then change the index property to 0.
This will change the name to CBtn1(0). and you have a control array.
Creating multiple run-time instances is like this:
for i = 1 to 10 ' gives you 11 btns, 0-already exists
Load CBtn1(i) ' creates an ith instance.
' here yoe need to set the properties...
' specially .Visible for this case.
Cbtn(i).Move ....
CBtn(i).Visible = true
next i

Try the same. If it doesn't work, then winsock is a different animal :-)

Ravi