Ed Leafe wrote:
On Jan 17, 2006, at 10:38 AM, Don Taylor wrote:
Why not use the control Name as the RegID?
Name is something every control has; it has to be unique among
siblings. RegID, OTOH, must be unique among all objects within a form.
It is a special 'tag' by which controls that need to reference each
other can do so without having to worry about containership paths, name
changes, etc. You only need RegIDs when the control needs to be
referenced by another control, or when you want to auto-bind events to
that control.
Hope that helps explain the distinction...
Ok, but could you require that all Names be unique to a form so that you
could use a Name for a RegID and then you cold drop the separate concept
of both a Name and a RegId. More Pythonic? Do you lose anything by
doing this?
I always have a hard time coming up with names for things that are
pretty much the same thing from my perspective. So far I have cut and
pasted the Name into the RegID property because I can't think of
anything better.
Don.
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