On Apr 5, 2007, at 3:23 PM, Nate Lowrie wrote:
> I could have sworn I've done this before. Suppose I have a custom
> panel class. Its parent may or may not be a form. Now, I want to
> access an object that is not sitting on the panel by regID. I know
> that there is a way of doing this I just don't remember how.
RegIDs have no meaning outside of the context of a form. For that
reason, they are not a good choice for sub-form-level classes. Think
about it: if you gave a control in your panel class a RegID, and then
used 3 of these panels in a form. There would be duplicate RegIDs,
and would make their use meaningless.
Instead, give the items meaningful Name values. Names only have to
be unique among siblings of the same parent, so from your panel you
can reference them by: self.txtFirstName, self.txtLastName, etc.,
assuming that those are the names you've given to your textboxes.
-- Ed Leafe
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