Reflection allows you to do what you want.
J
Thanks for your message at 09:55 PM 6/1/99 -0500, Jason Puyleart:
>Is there a way to have a method work with the specifics of an object at
>runtime?
>
>Let's say that I have a method that I want to pass in a vector of objects
>
>public CheckBoxList(Vector objects, String anObject, String value)
>
>Can I do something like this:
>
>anObject item;
>
>item = (anObject)object.elementAt(index);
>
>item.value
>
>Basically, I want to be able to create a method that will be able to use
>certain methods of an object
>without knowing them until runtime...
>
>This probably doesn't make any sense - it's been a long day.... Any
>thoughts would be appreciated!
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