<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!--*********************************************************** * * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file * distributed with this work for additional information * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, * software distributed under the License is distributed on an * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the * specific language governing permissions and limitations * under the License. * ***********************************************************--> <helpdocument version="1.0"> <meta> <topic id="textsbasicshared03103800xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> <title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">FindObject Function [Runtime]</title> <filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03103800.xhp</filename> </topic> </meta> <body> <section id="findobject"> <bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3145136"><bookmark_value>FindObject function</bookmark_value> </bookmark> <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3145136" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03103800.xhp" name="FindObject Function [Runtime]">FindObject Function [Runtime]</link></paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155341" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Enables an object to be addressed at run-time as a string parameter through the object name.</paragraph> </section> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150669" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="3">For example, the following command:</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148473" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">MyObj.Prop1.Command = 5</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156023" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="5">corresponds to the command block:</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153896" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">Dim ObjVar as Object</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154760" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="7">Dim ObjProp as Object</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145069" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8">ObjName As String = "MyObj"</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154939" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9">ObjVar = FindObject( ObjName As String )</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150793" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10">PropName As String = "Prop1"</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154141" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">ObjProp = FindPropertyObject( ObjVar, PropName As String )</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156424" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">ObjProp.Command = 5</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145420" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">This allows names to be dynamically created at run-time. For example:</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153104" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">"TextEdit1" to TextEdit5" in a loop to create five control names.</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150767" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">See also: <link href="text/sbasic/shared/03103900.xhp" name="FindPropertyObject">FindPropertyObject</link></paragraph> <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150868" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="16">Syntax:</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151042" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">FindObject( ObjName As String )</paragraph> <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3159254" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="18">Parameters:</paragraph> <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150439" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="19"> <emph>ObjName: </emph>String that specifies the name of the object that you want to address at run-time.</paragraph> <embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> <embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> <embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err12"/> </body> </helpdocument>