[AccessD] Find First in an Array? - The Solution Revisited - Now Tag is the Answer

LOL.  Nah.  It's a good idea.  

I think you and I agree that the Class/Collection method is more
powerful and capable.  It doesn't make the Tag method 'wrong'.  There
are drawbacks, which I mentioned in a post a few minutes ago, but it
doesn't make it a bad idea.  There are drawbacks to the class/collection
method (the big one is that if you don't have a firm grasp of classes
and collections, you'd be putting a process you don't really understand
into a production app you own...).

I haven't gotten any feedback on my example though.... (Rocky commented
on OT, posted it there first by accident).  

Drew

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Subject: Re: [AccessD] Find First in an Array? - The Solution Revisited
- Now Tag is the Answer

I sense a "tag war" coming on...

;-)

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com


Drew Wutka wrote:
> Yes...it does.
> 
> If you are using the tag property for EVERY control in every form,
then
> how do you use that same property for something else?
> 
> You could copy the value out, but what if, during the process where
the
> tag is holding your value, it tries to use the tag for the
translation?
> It won't work right.
> 
> Besides, one of the great purposes of a tag is that it will let you
> store arbitrary information about a control at design time.  Why waste
> that functionality in an entire app, when you can 'translate' in other
> ways that leave the tags alone?  
> 
> Drew
> 
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