Re: Developer 2000: Why use Object ID instead of Object Name?

[Quoted] Just curious: why would you run multiple instances of a form?

Thanks.

Russ Whiteman wrote in message <75b5gd$751$1_at_news1.inlink.com>...
>One example would be if you want to allow multiple instances of a form...
>they'll all have the same name, but different ID's. I'm sure there are
>other cases (or forms would be the only one that allowed ID's), but that's
>the one I seem to run into the most.
>
>John Haskins <76054.334_at_compuserve.com> wrote in message
><75a9e9$r2v$1_at_news-2.news.gte.net>...
>>I'm working with Developer's built-ins and noticing that many of them
>accept
>>either an object name or an object ID as input. Why go to the extra
>trouble
>>to create a variable to store the object ID, extract the object's ID with
>>FIND_objectname, and then use it? Since you have to know the object's
name
>>to get the ID anyway, it seems it's easier to just use the name and be
done
>>with it.
>>
>>Opinions on this are welcome...I'm sure there's some reason Oracle went to
>>the trouble to make this feature available.
>>
>>
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Received on Thu Dec 17 1998 - 23:20:02 CET