Reference to a control, by its name in a String

[Manekurt]

Hello to all, I need to change a property of a menuitem called for example
A1
I have A1 in a String Varibale

I need to accomplish this
------
Me.A1.Enabled = True
------


in this way

-----
var_aname As String = "A1"
Me.var_aname.En abled = True
-----


any ideas, thank you !!

Manek

[Tim]

Re: Reference to a control, by its name in a String


me.controls("a1 ").enabled





Manekurt wrote:[color=blue]
> Hello to all, I need to change a property of a menuitem called for example
> A1
> I have A1 in a String Varibale
>
> I need to accomplish this
> ------
> Me.A1.Enabled = True
> ------
>
>
> in this way
>
> -----
> var_aname As String = "A1"
> Me.var_aname.En abled = True
> -----
>
>
> any ideas, thank you !!
>
> Manek[/color]

[Patrice]

Re: Reference to a control, by its name in a String

This is the name of the control or the name of the variable ?

Have you double checked you design ? You may want to explain what you is
your final goal.

--
Patrice

"Manekurt" <mar_c_o_sbv@ga macom.com.ar> a écrit dans le message de news:
%23DDoCsglGHA.2 136@TK2MSFTNGP0 4.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> Hello to all, I need to change a property of a menuitem called for example
> A1
> I have A1 in a String Varibale
>
> I need to accomplish this
> ------
> Me.A1.Enabled = True
> ------
>
>
> in this way
>
> -----
> var_aname As String = "A1"
> Me.var_aname.En abled = True
> -----
>
>
> any ideas, thank you !!
>
> Manek
>
>
>[/color]

[Mike Lowery]

Re: Reference to a control, by its name in a String

You need to write your own function to do this. See
http://www.devx.com/vb2themax/Tip/19623.

"Manekurt" <mar_c_o_sbv@ga macom.com.ar> wrote in message
news:%23DDoCsgl GHA.2136@TK2MSF TNGP04.phx.gbl. ..[color=blue]
> Hello to all, I need to change a property of a menuitem called for example A1
> I have A1 in a String Varibale
>
> I need to accomplish this
> ------
> Me.A1.Enabled = True
> ------
>
>
> in this way
>
> -----
> var_aname As String = "A1"
> Me.var_aname.En abled = True
> -----
>
>
> any ideas, thank you !!
>
> Manek
>
>
>[/color]

[Manekurt]

Re: Reference to a control, by its name in a String

Hello, I need to enable or not, menuitems in a menu depnending the user
permission, whish is set in a table of the DB
so I go through the table records, and depending the name of the control , y
enable or not the menu
Something like this

TABLE PERMISSION
MEUNUNAME - ACCESS
A1 true
A2 true
A3 false
A4 true

Something like this
So I need this

me.NAMEOFCONTRO LFROMMENUITEMNA ME.enabled = ACCESS

Thank you




"Patrice" <scribe@chez.co m> escribió en el mensaje
news:elvejyglGH A.3816@TK2MSFTN GP02.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> This is the name of the control or the name of the variable ?
>
> Have you double checked you design ? You may want to explain what you is
> your final goal.
>
> --
> Patrice
>
> "Manekurt" <mar_c_o_sbv@ga macom.com.ar> a écrit dans le message de news:
> %23DDoCsglGHA.2 136@TK2MSFTNGP0 4.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> Hello to all, I need to change a property of a menuitem called for
>> example A1
>> I have A1 in a String Varibale
>>
>> I need to accomplish this
>> ------
>> Me.A1.Enabled = True
>> ------
>>
>>
>> in this way
>>
>> -----
>> var_aname As String = "A1"
>> Me.var_aname.En abled = True
>> -----
>>
>>
>> any ideas, thank you !!
>>
>> Manek
>>
>>
>>[/color]
>
>[/color]