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Re: Adding flexibility at run time question [message #43921 is a reply to message #43919]

Tue, 03 May 2005 16:29

David Fanning
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Marc Reinig writes:

> I would like to be able to select a particular procedure to run at run time
> rather than at design time.
>
> One thought would like my program to look in a particular directory and
> select a procedure name, which will be a concatenation of the name any .pro
> file it finds there and a standard suffix and run it.
>
> I.e. if there were three files in the directory: a.pro, b.pro, and c.pro, it
> would know that there would be a procedure named a-xxx, b-xxx, and c-xxx in
> the files respectively which my program could call. But how would I have it
> call the procedure based on the name of a file.
>
> Doing this at compile time would also be acceptable, but I still haven't
> figured out how to call a procedure whose name I don't type in but create on
> the fly.
>
> Any guidance on how I would do this?

I guess I'd try CALL_PROCEDURE. :-)

Cheers,

David

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