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Defining objects that don’t represent data values

Objects that don’t represent single data values use a form of the DEFINE statement that names the object type directly. You have seen the DEFINE BUTTON, DEFINE BROWSE, and DEFINE FRAME statements already in the AppBuilder code for CustOrders.w. These are all examples of this form. Each statement type accepts the same kinds of options that the VIEW-AS phrase of the DEFINE VARIABLE statement does, with the options list specialized for each object type. You’ll look at some of these object types in the next chapter.