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PARENTFRAME property (GUI)

Description

Returns the name of the WINDOW that an object belongs to. If the specified object is a top-level window itself (i.e. it has no parent) then object's name is returned.

Property Value

The PARENTFRAME property is the name of a WINDOW object that hosts or owns the specified object.

Property Traits

DevelopmentRuntimeIndexedScaledSynthetic
N/AGet OnlyNoNoNo

Remarks

This is different from the PARENT property in that the latter could return the name of a non-WINDOW object if hosted in a nested structure.

If this property is used with a WINDOW object and the window is owned

See Also

PARENT property, GETPARENTFRAME method