activePDF Toolkit 2011 API Reference
Dict_GetAttrVal
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Description: Returns an encoded value representing the object's attributes for an object known to be a Dictionary object.
Syntax: retValue = object.Dict_GetAttrVal (DictObject, "DictName")
Arguments: Argument Value Type Description & Settings
object N/A Set to an instance of the Explorer Object.
DictObject Integer An encoded value representing a Dictionary object as returned by the Dict_GetDict method.
DictName String The name of an object known to be a Dictionary object as returned by the Dict_GetName method and corresponds to the DictObject.
retValue: Value Type Description & Settings
Integer An encoded value representing the Dictionary object's attributes suitable for passing as the AttrVariant for the following methods: The method returns a 0 (zero) if the DictObject is invalid or the DictName is incorrect.

NOTE: The required AttrVariant changes based on its location in the object parsing cycle started from the GetRootObject call.