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Thread: Access form controls from .net extension?

Preston Zappa
Posts: 4

Access form controls from .net extension? Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 12 Apr 07 8:38 AM

I have an slx form that kicks off a .net mass db update. I would
like to have a progress bar on the form and the .net code update
the progress bar accordingly. Is this possible?

TIA-
Preston

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Jason Huber
Posts: 77

Re: Access form controls from .net extension? Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 23 May 07 3:13 PM

Sounds cool. Here is what I would try.

Within the .NET form have a property called progress.
Within the SLX calling form have a timer that checks the progress property of the .NET form (returned from the managed.create etc code and placed in global memory)
Each check can be 1 sec apart etc...

I havent tried it, but it sounds like it might be cool..

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Ryan Farley
Posts: 2265

Re: Access form controls from .net extension? Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 23 May 07 4:01 PM

Jason's idea would work. You could also get a reference to the form in your .NET code and then update it from there. You could either pass a reference of the form to it when you created the extension or grab it from the forms collection. Once you had a refernce to the form, you could access the control as needed to update properties etc. Make sense?

You'll have to remember that everything for accessing the form will be late-bound (there is no real "form" object exposed). So if you're writting in C# then you'll have some fun code ahead

. If you're using VB.NET then it doesn't really matter. The C# code won't be too bad, it just doesn't late-bound calls as "loosely" as VB.NET.

You could also pass in a reference to the progress bar as well to your .NET code and then just skip the form reference and just update the progress bar as needed.

Does that all make sense?

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