Naming abbreviations for controls

[357mag 2]

Is there a page out there somewhere that shows some naming conventions for the controls in C++ Builder? Like how do you abbreviate things like the Edit box or the Label etc? Do you just follow Visual Studio conventions? Just wondering what would be some good naming abbreviations.

[Anders Melander 1815]

12 minutes ago, 357mag said:

Just wondering what would be some good naming abbreviations

Don't.

You aren't improving anything by abbreviating control names.

[Gord P 14]

Are  you talking about changing the default name of Button1 for example to btnOpen or something?  If so, I have never seen any guidelines for C++.   I have seen a bunch of code written with a three letter lowercase prefix of the control such as the btnOpen one I just mentioned.  I have seen mnuOpen for menu item, dlgOpen for dialog, actOpen for actions etc.  I have my own system which is different.  I think the main thing is being consistent and something you can search easy enough.  Or perhaps someone will point you to some standard somewhere.

[weirdo12 21]

Just to be clear, are you referring to renaming controls that you drag and drop or naming ones you are creating dynamically?

 

I missed the previous post...

Edited December 15 by weirdo12

[Uwe Raabe 2064]

On 12/10/2024 at 10:27 PM, Gord P said:

I have seen a bunch of code written with a three letter lowercase prefix of the control such as the btnOpen one I just mentioned.  I have seen mnuOpen for menu item, dlgOpen for dialog, actOpen for actions etc.

I try to omit the control type in the name in favor of the purpose the control is used for. F.i. instead naming a TLabel as lblSomething and a TStaticText as sttSomethingElse I use dspSomething, dispSomething or even displaySomething lately. Similar I give a TEdit, TMemo or TComboBox (if not in List style) a editSomething name, while a TRadioGroup, TLIstBox or TComboBox  (when in List style) gets a name like selectSomething. The advantages are that these names usually stay as is when the controls are changing type and it contributes to documentation - at least a little bit.

[pyscripter 694]

I don't think this is anything to go by, but Embarcadero is sometimes using a suffix instead of a prefix! e.g.

 

Vcl.CustomizeDialog.dfm

      object CaptionOptionsGrp: TGroupBox

      object ApplyToAllChk: TCheckBox

      object CaptionOptionsCombo: TComboBox

 

This looks to me worse than using a prefix.  But anything is better than keeping the default names (Button1, Button2, .. Button105 etc.)

Edited December 16 by pyscripter

[dummzeuch 1517]

GExperts has a Rename Component expert which has two different presets for many component types.

No idea where the preset "defaults" comes from, the second one is called "twm" and you can probably guess whose initials these are.

 

(The presets are not covered in the help yet.)

 

I think, cnPack also has a similar functionality but I don't know anything about it.