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I need to create a new button at runtime, and have it inherit the...

 
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I need to create a new button at runtime, and have it inherit the..., ...properties of a different button.
Kaysakado
4 Nov, 2007 - 09:19 AM
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I've seen another topic on how to create objects at runtime, and understand how to do it, but I need the object to inherit the properties of another object. Here is my code:
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Dim Button2 As New Button
        'Button2.Text = "testing"
        'Button2.Visible = True
        'Button2.Top = 20
        'Button2.Width = 100
        'Button2.Height = 50
        'Button2.Left = 10
        Controls.Add(Button2)
As you can imagine, it uses the default properties for a button, seeing as I've commented out the lines that set the properties.

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5 Nov, 2007 - 01:42 PM
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Unless I am wrong you should be able to put in the code after what you already have lines like this:


button2.[property] = button1.[property]


Just put these lines in there for whatever properties you want (up to all of them). This may not be the leanest way to do it, but it should work
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Well, I thought of doing that, but wanted to see if there was a more efficient way. Thanks anyways.
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This is just a guess/idea (that I haven't tested), but what about something like this?
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dim button2 as new button = button1

And then you'd just adjust the properties that needed to be changed?
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Nah, I get an "End of statement expected" error. It wants me to do something like the code below, and that would break it even worse.

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Dim Button2 As New Button = Button1.text
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Oh, okay - I also found this topic on the MSDN forums which seems to be about the same thing...they seem to be saying that you'd need to create a separate function to take the button and return a new one with the same attributes.
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