Parent and Application Properties

Every Automation object provides a Parent and an Application property. The Application property returns a reference to the top-level Application object. This is a convenient way to access the Application object, particularly when passing Automation objects as arguments to subroutine and function calls.

The Parent property returns a reference to the collection object that an object is contained in, or the controlling object. If an object is not contained by a collection object, the Parent property typically returns a reference to the Application object.

See Also

PlotWindow, WksWindow, and GridWindow Objects

Surfer Object Model

Overview of Surfer Objects

Introduction to the Major Surfer Objects

Using Surfer Objects

Derived Objects

Using Collection Objects

Object Hierarchy

Object List

Optional Arguments and Named Arguments