Android Question how to refer to custom properties of views that are child of a panel

[acorrias]

Hi
I wish to know how to refer to object properties when they are accessed trought its parent. That is, I realized that I cannot access properties of views directly, but I have to declare an object with the same type of the view in order to get some custon property.

that is, suppose that the panel p contains a label

so
this doesn't work

msgbox(p.getview(1).text,"")

this works

dim la as label
la=p.GetView(1)
msgbox(la.text,"")

is there a reason? is an alternative way to access properties. Is it correct?

thanks
Alex

 

[somed3v3loper]

I think the reason is that p.GetView(index) returns a general View and not TextView type so there is no .Text property .

 

[DonManfred]

I think the reason is that p.GetView(index) returns a general View and not TextView type so there is no .Text property .

Correct.
It is a reference to the correct Object but it is a VIEW.
So you need to cast the view first to a Button, Label, whatever; to get the correct Properties