Hi, Friedrich - 

Are you thinking that PB "executes" an object's declaration at the point in a script where it appears? That's what it sounds like you're saying.

If so, that's not the way it works. Variable/structure/auto-instantiated object declarations are simply information for the compiler as to how much memory to allocate and initialize. It matters not where in the script the declaration is located, as long as a declaration precedes any use of the variable/structure/object that is being declared.

An auto-instantiated non-visual object behaves similar to a structure or standard datatype except the NVO also contains methods.

This is all by design. If you want the creation of NVO's to behave differently you'll have to manually instantiate/create them and manage this yourself.

Best regards, John

Hi Friedrich,

I think this is intended behaviour. Variable declaration in a script is independend from control.

You can check this:

if 1 = 2 then
	int i
end if
i = 1
messageBox ("", i)

So in your case it instantiates all autoinstantiated objects.

Workaround:

Write a function or event to create each of your types.

Choose Case as_Type
   Case "attrib_1"
      lnv_return = of_create_attrib_1()
   Case "attrib_2"
      lnv_return = of_create_attrib_2()
   Case ...
End Choose

function attrib_1 of_create_attrib_1()
   attrib_1 lnv_Attrib
   return lnv_Attrib

function attrib_2 of_create_attrib_2()
   attrib_2 lnv_Attrib
   return lnv_Attrib

...