Coming in late on this (at a conference for 3 days) but I have a couple of
virtual property handlers that address some of these issues. The robustID
getProp returns the kind of string that behavior references need.
--------
getProp robustID
---- a virtual property ----
-- getting the long id of a control can result in different values depending
on
-- (a) where the stack is stored on the user's disk and
-- (b) which card is the currentcard when the property is fetched
-- the robustID is consistent no matter what card is current
-- and no matter which folder the user has stored the stack in;
-- format: button id 1039 of bkgnd id 1003 of stack "subStack1"
-- of stack "tMainStack"
-- the robustID can be used as a complete object reference,
-- just like the long ID
-- requires q()
put the long id of the target into tLongID
if tLongID begins with "stack" then
return the name of tLongID
end if
replace " stack " with cr in tLongID
put line -1 of tLongID into mainStackFileName
replace quote with empty in mainStackFileName
put the short name of stack mainStackFileName into mainStackName
put q(mainStackName) into line -1 of tLongID
replace cr with " stack " in tLongID
replace " of " with cr in tLongID
put lineoffset(cr &"card ",cr & tLongID) into cdLineNbr
if cdLineNbr > 1 then delete line cdLineNbr of tLongID
replace cr with " of " in tLongID
replace "group" with "bkgnd" in tLongID
-- in case the group is not placed on the currentcard
return tLongID
end robustID
getProp robustName
---- a virtual property ----
-- getting the long name of a control can result in different values
depending on
-- (a) where the stack is stored on the user's disk and
-- (b) which card is the currentcard when the property is fetched
-- the robustName is consistent no matter what card is current
-- and no matter which folder the user has stored the stack in;
-- format: button "copyText" of bkgnd "fieldGp" of stack "substack1"
-- of stack "myMainStack"
-- the robustName can be used as a complete object reference,
-- just like the long name
-- requires q()
put the long name of the target into tLongName
if tLongName begins with "stack" then
return the name of tLongName
end if
replace " stack " with cr in tLongName
put line -1 of tLongName into mainStackFileName
replace quote with empty in mainStackFileName
put the short name of stack mainStackFileName into mainStackName
put q(mainStackName) into line -1 of tLongName
replace cr with " stack " in tLongName
replace " of " with cr in tLongName
put lineoffset(cr & "card ", cr & tLongName) into cdLineNbr
if cdLineNbr > 1 then delete line cdLineNbr of tLongName
repeat with c = 1 to the number of lines of tLongName
put line c to -1 of tLongName into ctrlName
replace cr with " of " in ctrlName
put the name of ctrlName into line c of tLongName
end repeat
replace cr with " of " in tLongName
replace "group" with "bkgnd" in tLongName
-- in case the group is not placed on the currentcard
return tLongName
end robustName
function q str
-- quote
-- place this handler in a library stack,
-- where it will be available everywhere
return quote & str & quote
end q
----------
-- Peter
Peter M. Brigham
pmb...@gmail.com
http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig
On Oct 25, 2014, at 3:48 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
> Doesn't address your issue, but I do have a free stack that is useful if
> you need to make wholesale changes to a behavior id. You can search for
> all objects with a string in the behavior and replace it with another.
>
> If interested, its available at http://www.lcsql.com/free-stuff.html
>
> Pete
> lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
> Home of lcStackBrowser <http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html> and
> SQLiteAdmin <http://www.lcsql.com/sqliteadmin.html>
>
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Todd Geist <t...@geistinteractive.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I don’t like to use IDs to reference Objects. But it seems that the only
>> way you can reference a Behavior is with it’s ID. Is that true? Is there
>> another way?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Todd
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