How to get and edit controls in a forms from X++

There are two ways to do it, as usual there is a hard and an easy way.

1- Declare the Control:

The very will know way is the easy way, that you set the control as "AutoDeclaration" to YES , but unfortunately this way has a serious drawback.

The "AutoDeclaration" makes the system slower for couple of reasons.

2- Define the control programmatically:

This is the hard way, but it performs better, since it does apply only one call.

Create the method in my case it is an event overwritten method, and I want to access "VendPurchOrderJour_InvoiceAccount"

Here is the Code.

void clicked()

{

FormDateControl         dt;        //Form Control Type

FormStaticTextControl   st;         //Form Control Type

;

super();

//Where “VendPurchOrderJour_InvoiceAccount” is the Control Name

dt = element.design().control(control::VendPurchOrderJour_InvoiceAccount);

st = element.design().control(control::MyStaticText);

st.text(dt.valueStr());

}

About the Form Control Type, here the list of all form types *:

Form control type	Class
ActiveX	FormActiveXControl
Animate	FormAnimateControl
Button	FormButtonControl
ButtonGroup	FormButtonGroupControl
CheckBox	FormCheckBoxControl
ComboBox	FormComboBoxControl
CommandButton	FormCommandButtonControl
DateEdit	FormDateControl
Grid	FormGridControl
Group	FormGroupControl
GuidEdit	FormGuidControl
HTML	FormHTMLControl
Int64Edit	FormInt64Control
IntEdit	FormIntControl
ListBox	FormListBoxControl
ListView	FormListControl
MenuItemButton	FormFunctionButtonControl
MenuButton	FormMenuButtonControl
Progress	FormProgressControl
RadioButton	FormRadioControl
RealEdit	FormRealControl
StaticText	FormStaticTextControl
StringEdit	FormStringControl
Tab	FormTabControl
TabPage	FormTabPageControl
Table	FormTableControl
TimeEdit	FormTimeControl
Tree	FormTreeControl
Window	FormWindowControl

Happy Daxing !