Re: What's the widget's variable name?

If you know the search object's Object Name, you can match that with the
object's Variable Name using FORM GET OBJECTS.

(Caveat: haven't tried it doing what you're doing though).

David Dancy
Sydney, Australia

On 18 June 2012 09:36, Pat Bensky <pbensky@...> wrote:

> Self is deprecated in v12. It's replaced by Object Current or Focus Object
> or whatever.
> The problem is that the variable is dynamic. Yes, Self gives you a pointer
> to the variable. But I need to find out WHICH variable the pointer refers
> to and whether it is the search object variable. But I don't know what the
> search object variable's name is because its name is assigned dynamically
> each time the form is loaded. So one time the variable might be
> called $form.5.C and another time it might be $form.9.C or $form.10.C or
> whatever. I do not care what the CONTENT of the variable is. I need to know
> if the variable whose data was just modified is the search object variable,
> which might be named $form.9.C or $form.5.C or something else..
>
> PB
>
> On 17 June 2012 12:22, Ronald Hofmann <prolog@...> wrote:
>
> > mh, may be I don't understand what the problem is.
> > But anytime I want to know the variable name in a GUI I use Self which
> > gives
> > you a pointer to the variable.
> > Very simple and reliable.
> >
> > Any reason why this simple solution is not working?
> >
> > GR
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