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Action[]
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<div class="black"><font size="-2"><b>Syntax</b></font></div>
<pre class="syntax"><font color="blue">DIM</font> hAction <font color="blue">AS</font> <font color="#0080FF"><a href="../action+en">Action</a></font>

hAction <font color="blue">=</font> Action <font color="blue">[</font> <u>Key</u> <font color="blue">AS</font> <font color="#0080FF">String</font> <b>[</b> <font color="blue">,</font> <u>Parent</u> <font color="blue">AS</font> <font color="#0080FF"><a href="../control+en">Control</a></font> <b>]</b> <font color="blue">]</font></pre>
Returns an <a href="../../../def/object+en">object</a> used for manipulating all the controls associated with the specified action.
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The action <u>Key</u> can be:
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<li>The name of one action.
<li>If terminated by a <tt>*</tt> character, a pattern matching all actions beginning with the pattern.
<li>The name of several actions or patterns, separated by commas.
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If <u>Parent</u> is specified, then only controls having <u>Parent</u> as event observer will be returned.
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You must specify the <u>Parent</u> argument when your action is local, i.e. when its name begins with a dot.
Otherwise all controls will match, even those which are not observed by <u>Parent</u>.
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