A Control as an Argument (Visual Basic 6)

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Is it possible to use a control as an argument for a sub or function? I need to write a routine that takes a control as an argument and displays in a label the name and type of the control. Does anyone know if this is possible? Thanks.

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Yep you sure can.

Sub DisplayControlName(ctl As Control)
Label1.Caption = ctl.Name
End Sub

If you want to call it from the click event of a button, you could use something like:

Private Sub Command1_Click()
DisplayControlName Me.Command1
End Sub

What this would do is, when you clicked on the Command Butoon, Command1 Label1’s caption would change to the name of the Command Button(Command1 in this case)

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Thank you very much, Bryan. That’s exactly what I needed.

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