>I'm currently trying to create a object oriented menu system, and get rid of all boring .mpr files... But now I have a problem with the usage of the class, the syntax I want dosn't work. Here is an example:
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>oMenu = createobject('menu')
>oMenu.AddPad('FileMenu', 'File')
>oMenu.AddPad('EditMenu', 'Edit')
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>(So far so good, to pads are showing in my window...)
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>But if I want to hide a pad I want to write:
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>oMenu.Pad('EditMenu').HidePad()
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>But then this error shows up: Invalid subscript reference.
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>But if I do it this way everything works fine:
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>oPad = oMenu.Pad('EditMenu')
>oPad.HidePad()
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>Is there some way to get the short version to work? It looks so much nicer and as far as I know this is possible in many other languages.
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>/Mårten Törnquist

You're trying to access the objects as a collection, which doesn't work in VFP as it doesn't support real collections. You'll have to use the code that works.