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malathip
Occasional Visitor
8 years ago
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Perform a find directly in the object browser without having to execute your own code

Frequently, I run into problems where my find()/find_child()/find_child_ex()/etc.. calls are finding the wrong objects (sometimes its hard to find uniqueness within the objects you have at your dispo...
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Dmitry_Nikolaev
Staff
7 years ago

Hello,

 

I use the Inspect tool for this. Set a breakpoint on the first line in a procedure, run it and open the Evaluate dialog. Then type the object name along with the desired method and parameters. If the call returns an object value, click Inspect to view the object's members.