>I am trying to do a kind of translation program. By pressing F12 on a running form, it would save the caption (or whatever) of each object of the form and save it in a database. The captions, now in the database, will be translated and in the init of the form, each object will get the caption change to the translated value.
>So I need to identify each separate object so I can retrieve them.
>Something like container1.container1.object_n, or is there a unique number or something assign uniquely to each object?
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>Any suggestion?
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>Thanks
>Eric

I think you'll want a combination of a recursive method to drill down through the controls, and the SYS(1272) function, which returns an object's containership hierarchy. Since you need an absolute reference to the object, you will need SYS(1272)'s results in your table.