On 8/9/12 11:39 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
Replying to all.
In general:
Patient to Doctor: "Doctor - it hurts when I do this"
Doctor to Patient: "Well don't do that then."
That's my feeling about objects with the same name.
There are some convenient uses for same-named objects. I use them on
purpose sometimes.
Here's the situation that caused me to ask the question. I had
around 30 images I was using as button icons, some for the enabled state,
some for the disabled state. I found a much better looking set of images
to use, imported them with new IDs. Now I had to go through all my buttons
and change their IDs to the new ones. Not a huge deal but if I had been
able to set the button icons to image names, I would have had to do nothing.
I wish I'd posted my "getpaint" handler sooner. I wrote it ten or twelve
years ago when I had about 200 icons to change. They were all in a
"resources" group, so I scripted a loop that selected each one,
calculated a file name, and did a "getpaint" on it. It was so convenient
that I altered the handler to ask me for a file name manually and I've
been using it ever since.
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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