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30<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">FindObject Function [Runtime]</title>
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34<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created>
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40<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3145136"><bookmark_value>FindObject function</bookmark_value>
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42<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>
43<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>
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45<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150669" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="3">For example, the following command:</paragraph>
46<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148473" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">MyObj.Prop1.Command = 5</paragraph>
47<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156023" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="5">corresponds to the command block:</paragraph>
48<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153896" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">Dim ObjVar as Object</paragraph>
49<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154760" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="7">Dim ObjProp as Object</paragraph>
50<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145069" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8">ObjName As String = "MyObj"</paragraph>
51<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154939" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9">ObjVar = FindObject( ObjName As String )</paragraph>
52<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150793" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10">PropName As String = "Prop1"</paragraph>
53<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154141" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">ObjProp = FindPropertyObject( ObjVar, PropName As String )</paragraph>
54<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156424" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">ObjProp.Command = 5</paragraph>
55<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>
56<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>
57<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>
58<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150868" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="16">Syntax:</paragraph>
59<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151042" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">FindObject( ObjName As String )</paragraph>
60<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3159254" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="18">Parameters:</paragraph>
61<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150439" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="19">
62<emph>ObjName: </emph>String that specifies the name of the object that you want to address at run-time.</paragraph>
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