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Design Classes - Iterator-Visitor
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From
05/10/1998 07:17:57
 
 
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05/10/1998 06:59:04
Rex Mahel
Realm Software, Llc
Ohio, United States
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Classes - VCX
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00143802
Message ID:
00143804
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>I need to return values from a visitor object to my form, but I want to maintain loose coupling between to objects. Is there a slick way to accomplish this? I am considering form properties, but that promotes tight coupling.

What about passing a ref to the parent as a parameter, and then manipulating the properties of the parent object from the passed parameter? IOW:

loMyChild = CREATEOBJ('ChildObj',this)

or

DO FORM MyChildForm WITH this

and then create a property in the child object to hold the object ref, and assign it in the child's Init() method. Assuming you've defined a property ioParentRef in the child, add this to the Init method code:
LPARAMETER toParentObject
IF TYPE('toParentObject') = 'O'
   this.ioParentRef = toParentObject
ELSE
   RETURN .F.
ENDIF
You can then access Public properties and methods of the parent within the child via this.ioParentRef. Just remember to release the reference this.ioParentRef in your Release() or Destroy() method of the child.
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