How to Change a Method at Run Time

ID: Q141076

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, versions 3.0, 3.0b

SUMMARY

All methods are read-only at run time. You can, however, have several methods and decide at run time which method to execute. This article shows you how.

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Step-by-Step Example

Create a new form.

Place a command button (Command1) on the form, and add the following code to its Click event:
```
   lcTemp=ThisForm.gcCurrentclk
   &lcTemp 
```

Place an Option Group on the form, and add the following code to its Click event:


   IF This.Value=1
     ThisForm.gcCurrentclk="ThisForm.Click1"
   ELSE
     ThisForm.gcCurrentclk="ThisForm.Click2"
   ENDIF

Create a new form property called gcCurrentclk, and assign ThisForm.Click1 to gcCurrentclk.

Create a new Form method called Click1, and place the following in the Form.Click1 method:
```
   WAIT WINDOW "Click #1" 
```

Create a new method called Click2, and place the following code in the Form.Click2 method:
```
   WAIT WINDOW "Click #2" 
```

Run the form.

The option group determines which Click method for the command button will execute.

NOTE: The Click event for the command button does not have to be a method of the current form. For example:


gcCurrentclk="DO myprog.PRG" would execute a program.
gcCurrentclk="oMyclass.Click1" would execute a method of an external class.
gcCurrentclk="WAIT WINDOW" would execute a wait window.

Additional query words: VFoxWin

Keywords : FxprgGeneral
Version : WINDOWS:3.0,3.0b
Platform : WINDOWS
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