Get the Parent on Tab control.

[Ken]

I have a tabpage on a tab control, in a click event of a command button, on
the tabpage, I want to fire off
an event on the window that the tabcontrol is on.

How can reference the window generically i.e

What I want to do....

{Event Clicked for CB_1}
...
...

lpw_parentwindow = Tabcontrol.GetParent()

lpw_parentwindow.Trigger Event ue_process()

This don't work!!

Thanks
Ken

[Philip Salgannik]

Check the free stuff that comes with Powerbuilder - PFC:
See how they implement of_GetParentWindow(...) on most of their controls...

Ken wrote in message ...

[Stephanie Giovannini]

lpw_parentwindow.Trigger Dynamic Event ue_process()

You don't mention the data type of lpw_parentwindow, but I assume it is type
Window. The window datatype does not have the event ue_process. So, the
compiler can't let you call an event that does not exist in type Window.
However, you know that at runtime the lpw_parentwindow variable will contain
a reference to a descendant of Window that does have the ue_process event.
The dynamic keyword tells the compiler not to check the event or function
call. At run-time, PB finds the event in the actual object referenced by
lpw_parentwindow. If the event does not exist, PB ignores the event call and
moves on in the code. If you call a function in this way and the function
does not exist, PB will raise a run-time error.

Another approach to your problem:

w_desc lpw_parentwindow // substitute the window class that contains the
ue_process event

lpw_parentwindow = Tabcontrol.GetParent()

lpw_parentwindow.Trigger Event ue_process()

You can take this approach if you are absolutely certain that the parent of
Tabcontrol will always be of class w_desc or a descendant of w_desc. If it
isn't, then the GetParent assignment will cause a type mismatch runtime
error.

[Ken]

Thanks for all that!
It is of window type so what you sa will work for me, thanks!

Regards
Ken

Stephanie Giovannini wrote in message ...