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36<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">CreateObject Function [Runtime]</title>
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42<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id659810"><bookmark_value>CreateObject function</bookmark_value>
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44<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN10580" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="NEW"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03132400.xhp">CreateObject Function [Runtime]</link></paragraph>
45<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10590" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG"><ahelp hid=".">Creates a UNO object. On Windows, can also create OLE objects.</ahelp><comment>see i70942</comment></paragraph>
46<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN1059F" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">This method creates instances of the type that is passed as parameter.</paragraph>
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48<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN105A2" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">Syntax:</paragraph>
49<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN105A6" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">oObj = CreateObject( type )</paragraph>
50<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN105A9" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="NEW">Example:</paragraph>
51<paragraph role="code" id="par_idN105AD" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Type address</paragraph>
52<paragraph role="code" id="par_idN105B0" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Name1 as String</paragraph>
53<paragraph role="code" id="par_idN105B4" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">City as String</paragraph>
54<paragraph role="code" id="par_idN105B8" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">End Type</paragraph>
55<paragraph role="code" id="par_idN105BB" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Sub main</paragraph>
56<paragraph role="code" id="par_idN105BE" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">myaddress = CreateObject("address")</paragraph>
57<paragraph role="code" id="par_idN105C2" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">MsgBox IsObject(myaddress)</paragraph>
58<paragraph role="code" id="par_idN105C6" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">End Sub</paragraph>
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