Acessing defined properties

Having a little trouble with Properties.
Have created a control array of textboxes (as per help file) and can create my textboxes on my form with a common event handler (again as per help file) which seems to access the 'Get' property (text) but am having trouble accessing the set property to write text to the textbox.
Even though the class and property definition are Public I can't seem to find a way of addressing my textboxes from the form1 code or module code.

Anyone got some tips?

Thanks

Well, I don't know if this is what you are getting at but maybe it will help. Without adding any properties, using a form with a property grid to the left of a splitter and a panel to the right of a splitter, I was able to access the text property of any of an array of textboxes using this code (and set the text property of any of the items selected through the property grid):

Public Class Form1

Public txtBoxArray() As TextBox

     Private Sub TextBox_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
          Me.PropertyGrid1.SelectedObject = sender
     End Sub

Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles
Me.Load

          ReDim txtBoxArray(5)
          Dim intTop As Integer = 10
          Dim intLeft As Integer = 10
          Dim i As Integer

          For i = 0 To 4
               txtBoxArray(i) = New TextBox()
               txtBoxArray(i).BackColor = Color.Bisque
               txtBoxArray(i).Top = intTop
               txtBoxArray(i).Left = intLeft
               Me.Panel1.Controls.Add(txtBoxArray(i))
               AddHandler txtBoxArray(i).Click, AddressOf TextBox_Click
               intTop += 25
          Next
     End Sub
End Class

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Scott Lysle19y ago
Well, I don't know if this is what you are getting at but maybe it will help.  Without adding any properties, using a form with a property grid to the left of a splitter and a panel to the right of a splitter, I was able to access the text property of any of an array of textboxes using this code (and set the text property of any of the items selected through the property grid):

Public Class Form1

     Public txtBoxArray() As TextBox

     Private Sub TextBox_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
          Me.PropertyGrid1.SelectedObject = sender
     End Sub

     Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles
     Me.Load

          ReDim txtBoxArray(5)
          Dim intTop As Integer = 10
          Dim intLeft As Integer = 10
          Dim i As Integer

          For i = 0 To 4
               txtBoxArray(i) = New TextBox()
               txtBoxArray(i).BackColor = Color.Bisque
               txtBoxArray(i).Top = intTop
               txtBoxArray(i).Left = intLeft
               Me.Panel1.Controls.Add(txtBoxArray(i))
               AddHandler txtBoxArray(i).Click, AddressOf TextBox_Click
               intTop += 25
          Next
     End Sub
End Class