Determining Type

I have a game I'm working on that has many type of objects on the screen. All are Types, with Fields that reference the Pivots and Entities that make up the objects.

I want to be able to click with the mouse and affect them. To that end, I use the NameEntity(ent, Handle(obj)) trick to so I can retrieve the object later. Make sense?

When creating a ball for instance, I do:
ball\obj = CreateSphere()
NameEntity(ball\obj,Handle(p))

So, in on input I can do:

If (MouseHit(1))
picked = CameraPick(Cam,MouseX(),MouseY())
If (EntityName(picked))
p.ball = Object.ball(EntityName(picked))
...do stuff with the ball...
EndIf
EndIf

My problem is that I have different object types that I wan to affect. A ball, and a platform for instance. Is there any way for me to determine the type of object that is stored in a handle? For instance:
If (EntityName(picked))
If(Object.ball(EntityName(picked)))
p.ball = Object.ball(EntityName(picked))
...do stuff with the ball...
ElseIf(Object.platform(EntityName(picked)))
p.platform = Object.platform(EntityName(picked))
...do stuff with the platform...
EndIf
EndIf

Or, is there perhaps a better technique that I can use to get the same results?

You should be able to use ...

if Object.ball( entityname( picked ))<> null
[convert to ball type ]
else
[convert to platform type]
endif

Stevie

Brilliant! That worked perfectly! Thank you!