How to get content out of textbox when it isn't text?

[theregister]

When we insert a Text box into the report, and it looks like this:



we can select its text right? This worked for me.

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For Each comp As StiComponent In Report.GetComponents
  MsgBox(comp.Name)
Next

But what about when the Text box doesn't quite have just text but rather something like this:



How can we get not the value of that but rather just the text, what is inside the { }, "myTable.myField" in that case. All it returns to me is "Text1".

[HighAley]

Hello.

Try to get next property:

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 MsgBox(comp.Text)

Thank you.

[theregister]

It says 'text' is not a member of 'Stimulsoft.Report.Components.StiComponent' though.

[theregister]

Well I made it work how I wanted by doing this:

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TryCast(Report.GetComponentByName(comp.Name), StiText).Text

Thanks.

[Andrew]

Hello,

Thank you for sharing your solution!