AboutFrank G. Dahncke Expertise I can answer most questions realating to real-world application programming in Visual Basic .NET (including SQL-Server 7.0 and up). I NO LONGER ANSWER VB6 QUESTIONS. My speciality is GUI/frontend work and API calls. I do not know about Internet, games or graphics programming, just the bread-and-butter stuff. I answer questions in German as well.
Experience Experience: I have been programming BASIC applications professionally for 22 years now (2007), having done most any application type from multimedia CBT to telephone directories to database frontends. Organizations: RA-MICRO Software GmbH
Expert: Frank G. Dahncke Date: 7/28/2008 Subject: Runtime controls
Question QUESTION: I can create controls on a form at runtime (check boxes and text boxes) but I can not figure out how to read from those controls to save their contents to an array or a file.
How can this be done?
ANSWER: Which version of VB are you using?
Yours,
Frank
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QUESTION: Sorry - its VB 2008 Express Edition
Answer OK. In that case, just read the properties of the control. I don't know your background in programming, so I'll just make a simple example. Let's assume a textcontrol named "txtInput" resides on your form, then you can access the text the user typed by using the .Text property, thus:
Msgbox("User input: " & txtInput.Text)
Of course, the property to be used is different for each control type, please refer to the built-in manual for details.
