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How to find or go to a Page by its name

Fri, Jun 3 2016 12:14 PM	Permanent Link
Uli Becker	I have been using FindComponent for a quite long time without problems. My Cinedisk application wouldn't work without that. procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject); var TestComponent: TLabel; begin TestComponent := TLabel(FindComponent('Label1')); ShowMessage(TestComponent.caption); end; Just try it. It works! Uli
Sun, Jun 5 2016 2:36 PM	Permanent Link
Tim Young [Elevate Software] Elevate Software, Inc. timyoung@elevatesoft.com	<< Question: Is it possible to find a tab in an Application by its name? >> Do you mean "tab" or "page" ? Tabs are contained within a TPage component instance and don't have a "name", so you would have to look for the name of the TPage, not the tab. Tim Young Elevate Software www.elevatesoft.com
Mon, Jun 6 2016 12:52 PM	Permanent Link
Trinione	@Uli, yes, it works. However, I am trying to find a component on another form. @ Tim, yes I mean page. Basically, pages are created dynamically at Run-time. They are named and based on this name I need to see if the page exists, and then 'jump' to it by showing it to the user.
Tue, Jun 7 2016 4:22 AM	Permanent Link
Matthew Jones	Trinione wrote: > Basically, pages are created dynamically at Run-time. When I do this, I keep a record of the components created so that I don't have to spend time finding them later. A TObjectList is ideal, with a matching TStringList if you need to reference by text. One day we may get a list with both string and object like the Delphi TStringList's Object property, but that would probably be better done as a dictionary or something anyway, and if one is getting fancy, the better option still is to create an object to represent the data, and have the reference string and the UI component stored as properties, and then put that in a TObjectList. Wrap that in a controller and we reach the ideal. Sorry, got a bit carried away there, but that's what I have found so good about EWB - there is no limit to doing things properly. I have been so happy using it to write my current application as I just write nice OOP code and it handles it without problem. -- Matthew Jones
Tue, Jun 7 2016 7:12 AM	Permanent Link
Tim Young [Elevate Software] Elevate Software, Inc. timyoung@elevatesoft.com	<< Tim, yes I mean page. >> Yes, you can find a TPage instance by name on another form using FindComponent, provided that the form was created with the global Application instance as its owner. Tim Young Elevate Software www.elevatesoft.com
Tue, Jun 7 2016 7:13 AM	Permanent Link
Tim Young [Elevate Software] Elevate Software, Inc. timyoung@elevatesoft.com	In case it's not clear, you would use something like this: Application.FindComponent('MyPage',True); Tim Young Elevate Software www.elevatesoft.com
Wed, Jun 8 2016 11:15 AM	Permanent Link
Trinione	Thank you both. I will give this a go.

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