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"chadwick" wrote in message
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> Hello all,
> Is it possible for a property of an object in VBA to itself be an
> object? I'm working on a program that involves chemical equations,
> and consequently I have defined a couple of useful classes:
> "ChemicalCompound," and "ChemicalEquation." The ChemicalEquation
> class has as one of its members an array of ChemicalCompound objects,
> which represent the reactant compounds in the equation. I would like
> to keep the actual array private (i.e. access restricted to the class)
> and use a Property Get to access the ChemicalCompound objects in the
> array. Is possible for the return value of a Property Get to be an
> object of a user-defined class?

Yes. The syntax you use is like this

Property Get ReactantCompound(Index As Integer) As ChemicalCompound


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