Table of Contents

COUNTER property (System)

Description

Returns the current value of the Presentation Server counter, a number which is incremented after each access, thereby providing a unique numeric value for the current process.

Property Value

This property is a positive integer value.

Property Traits

DevelopmentRuntimeIndexedScaledSynthetic
N/AGetNoNoNo

Remarks

This property is useful for returning a simple unique number when used with Get_Property. The system itself uses COUNTER to provide unique suffix values for window and control IDs when creating multi-instance windows and tool-panels.

Example

 
CounterVal = Get_Property( "SYSTEM", "COUNTER" )
 
 
 

See Also

N/A