>>Do the assignment operator ("=") and the STORE command assign values to variables/properties by reference or by value? I've been told by a VB user that the SET command in VB assigns values by reference and I need to duplicate this in VFP when assigning values to their particular ActiveX object's properties.
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>>And what about the _Store() API function? Can anyone post an example of how to use this and is it different than using either "=" or STORE?
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>It might be because I'm a relatively green programmer, but I have never even heard the terms by value and by reference used with variable assignents, only with parameter passing.
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>If assigning a variable by reference, are you implying that the following would be true in VB?
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>SET a = 1
>SET b = a
>SET a = 2
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>?b && displays 2
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>For the life of me, this is all I could figure that storing a variable by reference could do. Otherwise, I think your VB programmers friend is confused.
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>PS, STORE does the same thing as =.

No.. he is saying that you have TWO variables that point to the same variable...

For example...

A = @B (By Reference)

Change A or B and both A and B chang to that value. This is mostly a c thing, since you can define if a 'variable' is a pointer.

BOb