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Testing if an object is an instance of a class
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Object Oriented Programming
Title:
Testing if an object is an instance of a class
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Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9
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Thread ID:
01057071
Message ID:
01057071
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Hello,

When testing parameters given to a function, I was wondering if there was a simple way to test whether an object x is an instance of a custom class A when inheritance is involved.
For example, class A inherits from Custom, class B inherits from class A, class C inherits from class B and I want to test object x so that it would answer indifferently yes whether the Class property of x is A, B or C. Unfortunately with the ParentClass property I can recurse only up one level.
Said otherwise, I would need is to construct is a function InstanceOf(oObject,cClassName), returning .T. if and only if the class of oObject is cClassName or one of its subclasses.

Thank you for your help,

David
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