1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3 4<!--*********************************************************************** 5 * 6 * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 7 * 8 * Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 9 * 10 * OpenOffice.org - a multi-platform office productivity suite 11 * 12 * This file is part of OpenOffice.org. 13 * 14 * OpenOffice.org is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 15 * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 16 * only, as published by the Free Software Foundation. 17 * 18 * OpenOffice.org is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 19 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 20 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 21 * GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 for more details 22 * (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code). 23 * 24 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License 25 * version 3 along with OpenOffice.org. If not, see 26 * <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html> 27 * for a copy of the LGPLv3 License. 28 * 29 ************************************************************************--> 30 31<helpdocument version="1.0"> 32<meta> 33<topic id="textsbasicshared03103800xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 34<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">FindObject Function [Runtime]</title> 35<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03103800.xhp</filename> 36</topic> 37<history> 38<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> 39<lastedited date="2004-08-24T12:04:39">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> 40</history> 41</meta> 42<body> 43<section id="findobject"> 44<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3145136"><bookmark_value>FindObject function</bookmark_value> 45</bookmark> 46<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> 47<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> 48</section> 49<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150669" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="3">For example, the following command:</paragraph> 50<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148473" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">MyObj.Prop1.Command = 5</paragraph> 51<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156023" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="5">corresponds to the command block:</paragraph> 52<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153896" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">Dim ObjVar as Object</paragraph> 53<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154760" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="7">Dim ObjProp as Object</paragraph> 54<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145069" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8">ObjName As String = "MyObj"</paragraph> 55<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154939" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9">ObjVar = FindObject( ObjName As String )</paragraph> 56<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150793" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10">PropName As String = "Prop1"</paragraph> 57<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154141" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">ObjProp = FindPropertyObject( ObjVar, PropName As String )</paragraph> 58<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156424" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">ObjProp.Command = 5</paragraph> 59<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> 60<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> 61<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> 62<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150868" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="16">Syntax:</paragraph> 63<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151042" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">FindObject( ObjName As String )</paragraph> 64<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3159254" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="18">Parameters:</paragraph> 65<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150439" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="19"> 66<emph>ObjName: </emph>String that specifies the name of the object that you want to address at run-time.</paragraph> 67<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 68<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 69<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err12"/> 70</body> 71</helpdocument> 72