Pete, I'm coming a bit late to this but...
You do understand that a button's name is different from it's label. You can have a button named "fred1" with it's label set to: fred And another buttoned named "fred2" with it's label set to: FRED So the end user sees the difference as only upper and lower case, whereas your program differentiates them correctly by their unique names. I wasn't sure this was clear to you. Chipp Walters CEO Shafer Walters Group, Inc On Jul 2, 2011, at 2:26 PM, Pete <p...@mollysrevenge.com> wrote: > Thanks for all the good suggestions, they all have merit but I don't feel > any of them are any better or worse than what I'm already doing. I > understand and agree with the need to avoid duplicate object names but, once > again, these are not duplicate names in any generally accepted sense of the > word no matter what LC thinks of them - their case makes them unique - so I > don't feel like I'm breaking any golden programming rules. > > > Pete > Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> > > > > > On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 9:42 AM, J. Landman Gay > <jac...@hyperactivesw.com>wrote: > >> On 7/2/11 12:27 AM, Pete wrote: >> >>> But they're not the same name - one is upper case and one is lower case. >>> LC >>> made a decision to treat them the same since casesensitive doesn't apply >>> to >>> object names, but they are different by any other definition. >>> >> >> The entire engine is case insensitive, not just object names. That's why we >> have a way to force case sensitivity for strings. >> >> >> I'm sure there are other ways to do this - with custom properties for >>> example. But I can't think of any practical downside to using the button >>> names, although I'm ready to hear any. >>> >> >> I'm of the school that also avoids duplicate object names. In this case I'd >> probably name the buttons with a space and a number after the duplicate part >> of the name, and then when processing them, refer to "word 1 of the short >> name of btn x" to get the necessary info. >> >> -- >> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com >> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/**mailman/listinfo/use-livecode<http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
