Getting the name of a control on a form

[pusherman]

Hello all,

I'm new to Gambas so I am still finding my way around. I have a question that I hope someone can answer for me.

I have a form with a TabStrip on it that contains five tabs. Each tab has a TextArea on it, 1 through 5. If I want to copy text into the TextArea of one of the tabs I have to find out what tab has been selected and then copy or paste into the TextArea;

If TabStrip.Index = 0 then TextArea1.Cut
If TabStrip.Index = 1 then TextArea2.Cut
and so on...

Is there a more elegant way of achieving this?

What I would like is;

Get the name of the TextArea on currently active Tab and put that into variable tArea
and instead of TextArea1.Cut use tArea.Cut

Any suggestions are welcome.

Thanks for reading
Pusherman

[BruceSteers]

If a textarea is all that is on each tab you could do this...

Dim tArea As TextArea = TabStrip1[TabStrip1.Index].Children[0]

tArea.Cut

Or access it by name this way ...

Dim tArea As TextArea = Me.Controls("TextArea" & Str(TabStrip1.Index + 1))

tArea.Cut

Or this..

Dim tArea As TextArea = Me["TextArea" & Str(TabStrip1.Index + 1)]

tArea.Cut

[pusherman]

That works perfectly, thank you.