[WD2025] getting control type in report in code

Hello, I am trying to find out the type of controls in code for a dynamic translation in our software in reports. However, I am not able to do that. In fact, I have to skip image controls because I can't retrieve ..caption from them, because that causes a crash.
I am now using EnumControl() to retrieve the controls of a report, but I have tried it via gpwEnumControl() but it returns an empty string on the first call. And EnumControl() does work, but only returns control names, no type like gpwEnumControl(). But the property ..Type doesn't work for report controls either, so I can't determine what control it is with that either. I tried the TypeVar() function, but it doesn't return a control type. Now I check if the control name contains the text ‘IMG’, ‘PIC’ or ‘LOGO’. That works, but is definitely not a good way.
Does anyone know of a solid way that does work?

Regards, Stefan

Hi Stefan, you're right, ..Type isn't available on reports. Perhaps you could use ..Group to identify controls vs. images?

Kind regards,
Guenter Predl
gpredl@syspredl.at

Hi Guenter,
thanks for thinking with me. That would mean I would have to put the image controls of many reports in a separate group, which they are not currently in. And that would be quite a bit of work anyway. Maybe someone has another solution that requires less work.

Regards, Stefan

Hi, I can't see any other property you could use

[help.windev.com]

Kind regards,
Guenter Predl
gpredl@syspredl.at

Maybe you could use the "Notes"-field of the image control. Insert "picture" as note and then use the F4-shortcut on the other image controls. Not ideal too but faster than grouping. Then you can retrieve the ..note-property to identify images.

Edit:
Another approach: In the project explorer you can select all images of the report and associate the selection with a group.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/25/2025 12:44PM by Markus K..

Did you try usinng the ..InputMask or the ..InputType property
[help.windev.com]
[help.windev.com]

..InputMask is suposed to work in reports : [help.windev.com]

Regards

Paulo Oliveira



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 06/25/2025 03:10PM by pao.

Hi Paulo,

..InputMask does indeed work for reports, but I see no way to use this for identifying image controls.
But thanks for the suggestion.

Regards, Stefan

hello Markus,

it could indeed be a possibility, but both still require some work to use this. I think I'll stick with the less fancy method first.

Regards, Stefan