Accessing a Control on Another Dialog

[steezware]

So, I'm in a dialog and I want to access/update a control, say a listbox, on the window that spawned the current dialog with focus.

Seems like I used to know how to do this, but maybe it can't even be done?

Thx!

[Ken Sproul]

Are you doing a 'goto'(the_window_with_the_control), before trying to access the control?

[steezware]

Figured it out:

PRINT 'SWAP'
LB'Visible = 0 (I passed the LB control value into the new 'process)
PRINT 'SWAP'

Thx for the 'goto' idea but tried 'swap' first and it worked.

[Mike King]

It likely would be easier to just use Pseudo control handles.  You can use the *system object to get the handle for any control in the system and then use it anywhere to access the control. 

https://manual.pvxplus.com/page/objctl2/overview.htm

->button 10,@(10,10,10,10)="hello
->osys=new("*system")
->%Btn_handle=osys'Control(10)
->?Btn_handle
1000100010

[James Crowther]