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Assigning value to property of object indirectly
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21/11/2015 05:13:55
 
 
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20/11/2015 17:55:49
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Coding, syntax & commands
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 9 SP2
OS:
Windows 8.1
Network:
Windows 2008 Server
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Application:
Desktop
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01627690
Message ID:
01627713
Views:
60
>>Hi all,
>>
>>This is probably a "Friday afternoon brain fart" type of thing but coding a utility class that has a function where I pass in:
>>
>>tcObjectName
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>>tcProperty
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>>tuValue
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>>That is, I want to have a generic function that assigns a value to a property of an object. I first loop through a collection to get an object reference to the named object to yield toSavedObject
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>>I know this works:
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>>
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>>STORE tuValue TO toSavedObject.&tcProperty
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>>
>>
>>Is there any other way to get the value into the property without using the ampersand?
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>>I tried indirection but that did not work e.g.
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>>
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>>STORE tuValue TO ( toSavedObject + "." + tcProperty )
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>>
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>>I know I can keep trying but figure I would ask and maybe there would be an answer when I get in Monday morning :-)
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Albert
>
>_VFP.SetVar(toSavedObject + "." + tcProperty,tuValue )

?

STORE "Store" TO ("_screen." + "Caption")
= ADDPROPERTY(_screen, "Caption", "AddProperty")
_vfp.SetVar("_screen.Caption", "_vfp.setvar")
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