Greetings!
I have this code:
And so on. There are 15 of those separators. This looks excessive and ugly.

If it were VB5, I'd solve this problem easily:

But sadly this doesn't seem to work on Gambas…

Is there a way to call all the objects on the form with the same name but a different number?

Your help is much appreciated.

annisu said

…Is there a way to call all the objects on the form with the same name but a different number?

Yes, you probably need to use a Control Group.

Take a look at Quin's answer in this thread:-
https://forum.gambas.one/viewtopic.php?t=664


Edit: I just tried this code based on Quin's:-


…which works fine. However,  I couldn't see any change when I tried to set the foreground, but that may be a separate problem.

Hi annisu and welcome to the forum and you are the 100th member "ta da!!"

I'm with Steve on this. I can't change the Foreground but the code works fine for the Background. I think you can simplify one line though to: -

I think the reason that this is not working is simply that it is not implemented in QT
Gambas sometimes has a property (Foreground) listed in the panel for a control (Separator) that has no effect.
I've come up against this a few times.
If there is no 'hook' in the underlying QT object for the property then neither setting it manually or using SetObject will work.

Also: In my example that Stevedee linked to there is an error  ops:
The line to control elements of a Lable should read TextLable as below.

Call me old fashioned, but to me the simplest solution is to shove all those lines off to a Sub or Gosub and then you have one calling line.

it appears that foreground color does not work properly.

https://forum.gambas.one/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=650&sid=6fc41c5bb40bb6ce399a798aaac43ad7

 I have noticed this too with the newer updates.  Since QT4 is no longer used in the newer versions of Linux support for QT4 is no longer supported in Gamabs.  For a while I was using the QT4 to Qt5 switcher and it worked fine.  How ever lately I had to go to using GTK3 in order to change the foreground and background colors.  When Ubuntu 20.04 comes out QT4 will be no longer be included only QT5 and GTK3.  

Personally I use Arch and the latest update to Gambas QT4 is no longer part of Gambas.  Currently it's Gambas 3.14.3.  Another problem is some older programs that used strictly QT4 will no longer work with the latest version of Gambas.  So my suggestion is to base your programs on GTK and not QT.

 I am a new gambas user … I changed my program to GTk and had to change a few things … but the printer no longer prints ? I just get a blank page.

So it is back to QT for now at least

grayghost4 said

I am a new gambas user … I changed my program to GTk and had to change a few things … but the printer no longer prints ? I just get a blank page.

So it is back to QT for now at least

So I tried again and the reason the print was a blank page is because the printing coradanates are different
QT using   1200 dpi on my printer … But  GTK uses 70 dpi on the same printer so everything was printing off of the page

Why would they uses such different values for the same printer ???