>>Hi everybody,
>>
>>If I know the object's name (the object is on the form, like grid), but don't know its hierarchy, is there a way to receive an object reference?
>>
>>Thanks a lot in advance.
>
>Hi Nadya,
>
>Would something like this do the trick?
>

>cName = yourobjectsname
>FOR i = 1 TO ThisForm.Objects.Count
>   IF ThisForm.Objects(i).Name = m.cName
>      * You have the reference - do what you want with it.
>   ENDIF
>ENDFOR
>

>Regards,

Yes, I was thinking about something like that. but it's going to become tricky, if you have pageframes or containers. So, I scratched the idea and decided to use the full reference.