Subject Re: versatility of the Inspector From Alex Safian <noway@noway.com> Date Tue, 27 Oct 2020 22:43:42 -0400 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started It's mentioned in Ken's books too. One place it's very useful is if you're using oleAutoClient to establish a connection to an outside program (like Word or Excel) or even Msxml2XMLHttp . Instantiate it in the command window with objHttp = new oleAutoClient("Msxml2XMLHttp") and then inspect it and you can see the events, methods and properties (which dBase gets from the registry). With this you can use web services in a desktop app. Gaetano Wrote: > > Hi All, > > While looking at a Help entry recently I realized that the Inspector is > not only available in the designers but also as a standalone command - > inspect(<object>) - that can be used with any object even during program > execution apparently. > > I had never heard anyone suggest to use Inspect(), it may be that > everyone knows this and uses it or that it is one of the little known > features of dBase. > > I have many time thought about how to get to know all the available > properties or events of an object, especially after someone on the NG's > told me about a property I had no idea existed, and this seems to be the > answer to it. > > I tried it on the command line on the _app object and it returned an > inspection window with a variety of info like the character set, iniFile > location, currentUserPath...etc., including a custom property that I had > just created to check if it would be listed. > > So is anyone using this regularly? and if so, in what context do you > find it useful? > > Cheers, > Gaetano. > > >