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Best practice for referring to form in form methods.
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Forms & Form designer
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01365701
Message ID:
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>>When I’m writing a form class or a form.scx with custom methods, what is the best practice for referring to the form itself in its method code?
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>>Should you use:
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>> This.PropertyName and This.MethodName()
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>> or
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>>ThisForm.PropertyName and ThisForm.MethodName()
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>>So it’s a question of “this” vs. “thisform”
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>>In the case of a form they both get you to same place.
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>>So, what are most of you doing?
>
I like to make a reference to what object I am calling like

oObject = Thisform (or oObject =This.Parent.pgf1.page2.grid )

then in my code I enter oObject.MethodName or oObject.PropertyName

so it becomes transparent after I assigning the oObject to what ever

(sent last message befor checking my spelling!)
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