How to change a label caption

[Jomercat]

Hi all,

I have been programing in Visual Basic 6.0 and now I would like to start learning Visual Fox Pro 6.0. I have a simple quetion.

I have a form with a label, which I want to change its caption to, say "12345". So I added the following to the form load event "THISFORM.Label1.caption="12345", but it does not work. What am I doing wrong?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Jose.

 

[mspratt]

Hi Jose,

In the form load event the label doesn't exist yet. Put the code in the init event which fires after all the form objects are instanciated.

Regards,

Mike

 

[DSummZZZ]

To elaborate a little on Mike's post, this is the chain of events for a VFP form:
The (blank) form gets created
Then all of the controls on the form get created
After which the controls' Init events fire
Then the form's Init event fires.

So if you're not initializing the caption in the form designer, you can either assign it a value in the form Init event as Mike said, or you can assign it a value in the label init event.


-Dave Summers-

Even more Fox stuff at:

http://www.davesummers.net/foxprolinks.htm

 

[Jomercat]

Thanks guys for your reply. It worked.

Jose.

 

[StewartUK]

Jose,

Picking up on Dave Summer's post, the Help has a page on event firing sequences, with the title "Tracking Event Sequences" which I have always found very useful.


Hope that helps,

Stewart
PS If you want to get the best response to a question, please check out FAQ184-2483 first.

 

[psycraj]

Remember LISA G In Short
LOAD
INIT
Show
Activate
GotFocus