>Hi all,
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>I wanted to write some generic code that would continue to work even if I added objects to a screen at runtime.
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>Is there another way to get an object reference to a screen object when part of the name is in a var?
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>I know I can use PEMSTATUS() to test if the object exists. Say that below was in a loop to test for a dozen objects
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>lnLoop = 5
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>lcObjectName = "label" + LTRIM(STR(lnLoop))
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>IF PEMSTATUS(THISFORM,lcObjectName,5)
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> loLabel = THISFORM.&lcObjectName
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>ENDIF
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>Is there any other way to get a reference to the object other than macro expansion? I think I figured this out once but dang if I can find it.
>
>Thanks,
>Albert
Check getPEM(), for example:
loForm = GETPEM(_screen, 'ActiveForm')
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