[scarfa]

Container.Viewmode returns a string label. I would like to request one that returns the id of the view as a numeric label.

[jmarshall]

How are you planning on using the result?

[scarfa]

I'am trying to detect what the current view mode is inside a dialog which has the focus. Control.IsVisible doesn't work, there are other ways to achieve this but it's not so pretty. The simplest solution is to know what the id is and do a string compare

[jmarshall]

I think you can do the same thing now using a string compare with the localized viewmode string? Probably just as (in)elegant

Cheers,
Jonathan

[scarfa]

Yep, but some of my views have the same name depending on the container content. Also when using another language string compare doesn't work. Using id's, each view would be unique.

[eumel]

Is it possible to use a number as name of the viewtype?

Code:

<viewtype label="[b]51[/b]">list</viewtype>