Access all components in form

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Is it possible to get access to all components in a form?

When I apply data bindings I sometimes forget to change the data bindings so that they all point to the same textbox etc.

I would like a way to access them without having to add them to a list of components. The way I think of doing it now is:

self.my_textboxes = [self.my_text_box_nr_1, self.my_text_box_nr2, ....]
self.my_labels = [self.my_label_nr_1, self.my_label_nr2, ....]
self.all_components = [self.my_text_boxes, self.my_labels, ]

But this does not seem so Pythonic? Is there a better way, maybe like self.__components__ or similar?

I can’t find the docs for Forms in the API Reference or the Github code, where are these?

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Do you need all components available with form on screen or just the ones inside a single container?

If the latter, you can use component.get_components, but if the former, you would need to iterate over all the containers and then go into nested containers with component.get_components.

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Thanks, component.get_components solves the issue.

Do you know where I can find the source code/documentation?

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here ya go: Anvil Docs | Containers

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