What Is Meant By the Term “Object Model?
The power of Visual Basic in general, and of STATISTICA Visual Basic in particular, derives from its ability to access the features of various programs that support the Visual Basic language. For example, you can write a program that produces a results spreadsheet via STATISTICA and pastes that spreadsheet into a Microsoft Word document and a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. That same program can then access individual cells in the spreadsheet, either in Microsoft Excel or STATISTICA, format those cells so that the contents of some cells are displayed in a different color (e.g., significant results are shown in yellow), and save all results (the document, spreadsheet, and Excel spreadsheet) to a disk. In this case you would access from a single Visual Basic program features in three different applications: STATISTICA, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Excel. The way this is generally accomplished is by organizing the respective features and functions available in an application by objects. For
