Suppose I want to use a FileListBox, but I don't have a form to place the control onto.

I want to create the object dynamically.

So I need a function like CreateAnObject that I can use like this:



How?

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This?

Dim ctlTest As Control

Set ctlTest = Form1.Controls.Add("VB.FileListBox", "flbTest", Form1)

ctlTest.Visible = True

ctlTest.Top = 42

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That works if one has a Form1 to place the control onto, but my question is asking about creating a FileListBox object in a project without a form.

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Is the problem you're trying to solve just getting the file names in a folder? If so, why not just use the Dir function?

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Have you tried this?



Haven't tested it but just creating the file list box object doesn't require a form to work.

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That doesn't work unfortunately. If FileListBox were a class, it might have worked... Controls must be something else.

In Machiara's code example, the Set keyword is for assigning a reference to a control. It's a keyword I've never used before, and I've never took the time to understand it's usage.

This is one thing in VB I dislike. It feels like dynamic control creation was an afterthought, clumsily bolted on to the language.

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Probably because it's not something that happened often in that time. I can count the number of times I needed to do it on my thumbs probably.

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