Check for instance of

Is there a way to check an object type.

for example

looping through all the controls on and form, and checking if a
control is an 'instance of' a textfield.

Bob Welke

Dan
Wed Jun 29 15:38:13 CDT 2005

There's no "InstanceOf" in VFP, but every control has a Class and Baseclass
property.

Dan

Lightning wrote:
> Is there a way to check an object type.
>
> for example
>
> looping through all the controls on and form, and checking if a
> control is an 'instance of' a textfield.
>
> Bob Welke

Leemi
Wed Jun 29 16:07:43 CDT 2005

Hi Bob:

Dan is correct. Here is an article with some code that may help:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;130713

I hope this helps.

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Microsoft FoxPro Technical Support
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>There's no "InstanceOf" in VFP, but every control has a Class and Baseclass
>property.

>Dan

>Lightning wrote:
> Is there a way to check an object type.
>
> for example
>
> looping through all the controls on and form, and checking if a
> control is an 'instance of' a textfield.
>
> Bob Welke