The SetPropertyValue( ) method
enables you to assign a value to a property even if you do not know
the property's name or type at compile time.
Return type: VOID
Access: PUBLIC
Applies to:
Progress.Lang.Class class
Syntax
Four overloaded versions are supported. The first version operates on a scalar instance
property, where a scalar property is any data type that is not, itself, an array.
class-object-reference:SetPropertyValue (
INPUT object-reference AS Progress.Lang.Object ,
INPUT property-name AS CHARACTER, INPUT new-value AS any-data-type )
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The second version operates on a scalar static
property.
class-object-reference:SetPropertyValue (
INPUT property-name AS CHARACTER, INPUT new-value AS any-data-type )
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The third version operates on an instance array
or .NET indexed property.
class-object-reference:SetPropertyValue (
INPUT object-reference AS Progress.Lang.Object,
INPUT property-name AS CHARACTER, INPUT index AS any-data-type,
INPUT new-value AS any-data-type )
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The fourth version operates on a static array
or .NET indexed property.
class-object-reference:SetPropertyValue (
INPUT property-name AS CHARACTER, INPUT index AS any-data-type,
INPUT new-value AS any-data-type )
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class-object-reference
- Specifies a reference to an instance of Progress.Lang.Class for
a type that exposes the property. For instance properties, object-reference and class-object-reference must
be the same type, or one must inherit from the other. Both must
either define the property or inherit it.
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object-reference
- Specifies a reference to an ABL or .NET class instance that
exposes the specified property as an instance member. The compiler
allows object-reference to be declared as any object type.
At run time, the object type must resolve to the type that exposes
the property. GetPropertyValue( ) and SetPropertyValue( ) work
correctly even if the object-reference is not
known. Alternatively, use the overloaded methods for static property.
Note: The overloads of SetPropertyValue( ) that
take an object reference can be used with a static property by setting object-reference to
the Unknown value (?). Alternatively, use the overloads
that are designed specifically for static properties.
Note: A run-time error arises if object-reference does
not inherit from class-object-reference, or vice-versa.
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property-name
- Specifies a CHARACTER name of the property. The AVM evaluates property-name at
run time.
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new-value
- Specifies the value that is assigned to the property. The value
is converted at run time to the property's data type using the appropriate data
type casting.
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index
- Specifies an integer expression for the index of the specified
element of an ABL array property. If the property is a .NET indexed
property, index is an expression for the specified element. The
index for an indexed property does not have to be an integer.
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any-data-type
- Specifies the data type of the associated element. The set of
possible data types depends on the element. For example, the index
of an ABL array element can only be an integer type. However, the
setting of a property, or array property element, value can be any
ABL primitive data or object type.
