>>Hi all,
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>>Is there any way to control the order in which objects are instantiated in a class (in the class designer)? I want to place some code in the init event of an object of a custom class which must run before the init event of another object of the same class. Is there any way to do this?
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>>Thanks,
>>Valerie
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>Objects are instantiated in the order that they are placed in a container/form. I'm pretty sure the only way to control it is to remove them and put them back in the order you want. You could cut and paste to another dummy form...
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>But I like this way better....in the init events for the objects requiring control, use something like...
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>PARAMETERS lCalledByForm
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>IF lCalledByForm
>. {place init Code here}
>ENDIF
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>RETURN lCalledByForm
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>In the Form.Init use something like
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>THISFORM.Object1.Init(.T.)
>THISFORM.Object2.Init(.T.)
>THISFORM.Object3.Init(.T.)
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>That way you control the initialization of each object from the init of the form
>
>HTH
>
>Matt

Thanks Matt. This is great. I was afraid to put calls to init in an init, but I hadn't thought of the step of adding the parameter to the object's init -- that would stop the recursion I feared.

Thanks again.
Valerie