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Can a class see what it's instantiated as?
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09/10/2015 09:52:27
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Classes - VCX
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Network:
Windows 2008 Server
Database:
MS SQL Server
Application:
Desktop
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Thread ID:
01625748
Message ID:
01625766
Views:
62
>>I have a moment of brain shortage, right now I can't see the forest for all the trees. Is it possible from within an object to know what is the name it's instantiated as? Given this code
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>>loCountries = NewObject('SqlTable','SQL.vcx')
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>>In this case I want the class SqlTable to understand that it's instantiated as loCountries. I am building a rather complicated generic class to work with SQL tables. My idea is that if I call the object for instance loCountries, my class can be smart enough to know that I want it to connect to the SQL table called Countries.
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>It seems wrong way to go about it. A Class/Instance shouldn't know or care how it's instantiated.

Maybe the real brain shortage was the whole silly idea. :-)
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