Indirectly reference objects using a string

[campopianoa]

I believe using the “tag” property would help “name” a component. You can place your components into a list so you can iterate through them. You also place them into an Anvil container and iterate through them similarly (e.g., with self.column_panel.get_components())

Here are some posts that might help:

Add name argument to add_component

Please add the name argument to the add_component function. The first example on the documentation of add_component would be xyp.add_component(lbl, x=10, y=10, name='hello_label') and it could be reached with xyp.hello_label. FR inspired here by @alcampopiano.

Best way to 'tag' existing components

So I’ve read how we CAN’T find components by name. But we CAN tag them via .tag property. But these CAN’T be set at design time (or can they?). Q. So what’s the best way to cycle thru EXISTING components and tag them if we don’t know which eg drop-box we’re looking at?