invalid name

[andreas57]

when i use a for-loop to go through 10 imageboxes like this:

for a=0 to 9
image(a).caption=a+5
next a

i allways get the error: invalid name. what can i do?

andreas owen
aowen@swissonline.ch

 

[dpaulson]

An image does not have a caption property.

David Paulson

 

[andreas57]

sorry that was an example

for a=0 to 9
image(a).left=a+5
next a


andreas owen
aowen@swissonline.ch

 

[Haheehi]

wat error do u get

 

[andreas57]

it allways marks "image" and says invalid name

andreas owen
aowen@swissonline.ch

 

[dpaulson]

You can only access a control array in that way, not individual controls. Did you copy and paste one control or create a new control each time. They will be named differently upon creation.

individual controls control array

image1 image1(0)
image2 image1(1)
image3 image1(2)

David Paulson

 

[andreas57]

control array

image(1)
image(2)
...

i've seen it work by someone else but i just can't succeed for some reason

andreas owen
aowen@swissonline.ch

 

[andreas57]

could it be that this doesn't work because i still use vb 5.0?

andreas owen
aowen@swissonline.ch

 

[Guest_imported]

you can't do that, even in vb6, you must create an array, and then use the index property of the array:

This don't work:
for a=0 to 9
image(a).left=a+5
next a

This works fine:
for a=0 to 9
image1(a).left=a+5
next a