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methods associated with it. The collection of all SPSS object classes (or types)
is referred to as the SPSS type library.
Table of Object Classes and Naming Conventions
The following variable names are used in the sample scripts included with the
program and are recommended for all scripts. Notice that with the exception of pivot
tables, ob
ject classes have names beginning with
ISpss.
Object Type or Class Variable Name
SPSS application
IspssApp
objSpssApp
—variable is
global and does not
require declaration
SPSS options
ISpssOptions objSpssOptions
SPSS file information
ISpssInfo
objSpssInfo
Documents
ISpssDocuments
objDocuments
Data document
ISpssDataDoc
objDataDoc
Syntax document
ISpssSyntaxDoc
objSyntaxDoc
Viewer document
ISpssOutputDoc
objOutputDoc
Print options
ISpssPrintOptions objPrintOptions
Output items collection
ISpssItems
objOutputItems
Output item
ISpssItem
objOutputItem
Chart
ISpssChart
objSPSSChart
Text
ISpssRtf
objSPSSText
Pivot table
PivotTable objPivotTable
Footnotes
ISpssFootnotes
objFootnotes
Data cells
ISpssDataCells
objDataCells
Layer labels
ISpssLayerLabels
objLayerLabels
Column labels
ISpssLabels
objColumnLabels
Row labels
ISpssLabels
objRowLabels
Pivot manager
ISpssPivotMgr objPivotMgr
Dimension
ISpssDimension objDimension