Get Current Control's Name

Is it possible to retrieve the current object's name and maybe even the type of object?
For example in:

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Thanks for your help.

so why would you need to dynamically determine this?

Because I've created a sub which takes the control name and its type as parameters.

I've just noticed that if the current control is in a frame, it returns the name of the frame.
Is this a bug?

I doubt it's a bug because it has been that way a long time. But I don't know the rationale.

Here is one workaround:

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