> Marc wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > In order to save user preferences I need to grab the name and position
> > of all buttons on a form, which i will then save to a text file. Anyone
> > know how I can easily get this information?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Marc
>
> The form has a Controls property that contains all the controls.
> Iterate through that and check certain properties of each control to
> see if they are the controls you are looking for.
> In this case, you might want to take certain actions if you encounter a
> control of type Button while iterating through the Controls.

> Marc wrote:
> > Great...any idea how I access this though?
> >
>
> Ok...
> First, you've been asking many very basic questions. I think you need
> to sit and just read through some basic tutorials or documents. ;)
>
> Now, I'll answer your question ;)
> A Form has a property named "Controls". If you have a form named FormA,
> you access it by typing "FormA.Controls", or "Me.Controls" if the code
> is located in FormA.
> "Controls" will return a collection of all the UI controls on the form.
> To find all of the buttons on a form, you have to look at the items in
> this collection and see which of them are buttons.
> You can use the "For Each" loop to do this (I can't explain it all
> here, MSDN probably has good documentation on it).
> It looks like this:
> For each Ctrl As Control in Me.Controls
>     if TypeOf Ctrl Is Button then
>         'Do some special button-processing code here.
>     end if
> next
>
> This code represents a loop that looks at each Control in a form's
> Controls Collection.
> For each of the controls, it check to see if it is a button, and if it
> is, you can put your own code in there.
> About the syntax:
>  - "For Each" will iterate through a collection of somethings.
>  - "Ctrl As Control" will create a new variable named "Ctrl" of type
> "Control". "Ctrl" will refer to the object in the collection that is
> currently being inspected.
>  - "in Me.Controls" means you will loop through all of the objects in
> "Me.Controls"
>
> Hope this helps.