Chapter 10: PowerScript Functions

GetHostObject

Provides a reference to the context’s host object.

ContextInformation objects

servicereference.GetHostObject ( hostobject )

Argument	Description
servicereference	Reference to the Context Information service instance
hostobject	PowerObject into which the function places a reference to the ActiveX automation server object

Integer. Returns 1 if the function succeeds and -1 if an error occurs. In PocketBuilder applications, GetHostObject always returns -1.

Call this function to obtain a reference to the context object model.

PocketBuilder environments The host object in a PocketBuilder application is an empty object—it fails the isValid(obj) test.