The
widget-reference is a reference to a handle-based object (see
Handle-basedreferences). The
method-name specifies the ABL-defined name of a handle method, and
parameter-list specifies any parameter list for the method. The
container-widget-name is a name reference to a static container for a static widget. You need it only if the static widget reference is ambiguous, as shown in the following example. To execute a handle method, you can assign the return value directly to a variable, include the method in an expression, or directly invoke the method as a statement (terminated with a period), ignoring its return value. For more information on calling handle methods, see
Accessing handle attributes and methods.
The following example executes the ADD-FIRST( ) method for a selection list (Select-1) in two different ways—assigning the return value to a logical variable (methRtn) and invoking it directly, without assigning a value:
