Can't get form items

Question

Hello everyone,
I have a form that I loaded from a xml file created on Screen Painter.
In my Item Event FORM_LOAD, I need to get it's items. I get the form with success, but the items count is always 0.
Does anynoe has an idea why this is happening?

Answer 1

When You load a form from XML all items are added after FORM_LOAD. That's why You don't have items frm.Items collection.
You should acces to item just after vApp.Forms.AddEx(... YourNewFormCreationParameters ...).
      Dim fcp As SAPbouiCOM.FormCreationParams = vApp.CreateObject(SAPbouiCOM.BoCreatableObjectType.cot_FormCreationParams)
      fcp.XmlData = My.Computer.FileSystem.ReadAllText("myNEwForm.srf"))
      Dim nFrm As SAPbouiCOM.Form = vApp.Forms.AddEx(fcp)
      nFrm.Items.Item("YourNewItemUID"). .....
If You want to acces to items after Form_load You can use GOT_FOCUS Event (only if You have at least one editable item on this Form). BeforeAction should be False
  Public catchGF As Boolean = False
  Private Sub vApp_ItemEvent(ByVal FormUID As String, ByRef pVal As SAPbouiCOM.ItemEvent, ByRef BubbleEvent As Boolean) Handles vApp.ItemEvent
      If pVal.FormTypeEx = "myNewFormUID" Then
        If pval.EventType = SAPbouiCOM.BoEventTypes.et_FORM_LOAD And pval.BeforeAction Then
          catchGF = True
        End If
        If pval.EventType = SAPbouiCOM.BoEventTypes.et_GOT_FOCUS And catchGF And Not pval.BeforeAction Then
          'Now You can acces to your Item
          catchGF = False
        End If
      End If