What Colin said.
You CAN use unquote object names, but I think it was Jacque who pointed
out a while back that quoting control names results in slightly faster
execution, since the engine doesn't need to determine if your word is a
variable or an object name. Ever since that explanation, I started
quoting everything.
Regards,
Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX/UI Design
On 1/26/16, 9:04 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Ralph DiMola"
<use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com on behalf of
rdim...@evergreeninfo.net> wrote:
>Riddle me this Batman:
>
>I have 2 controls named "F1"(field) and "menu"(button) both in a group
>named
>G1
>
>Why does this work...????
>put "F1" into somevar
>put the long name of control somevar into someothervar
>
>But this does not work...
>put "F1 of group G1" into somevar
>put the long name of control somevar into someothervar
>
>This works....
>put "F1 of group G1" into somevar
>put the long name of ("control"&&somevar) into someothervar
>
>This also works....
>put "F1" into somevar
>put the long name of ("control"&&somevar) into someothervar
>
>But this does not
>put "menu of group G1" into somevar
>put the long name of ("control"&&somevar) into someothervar
>
>But this does
>put quote&"menu""e&&"of group G1" into somevar
>put the long name of ("control"&&somevar) into someothervar
>
>And this works
>put "menu" into somevar
>put the long name of control somevar into someothervar
>
>Menu seems to be a keyword or something. What am I missing? Should there
>always be quotes around control names? (banging head against wall)
>
>Ralph DiMola
>IT Director
>Evergreen Information Services
>rdim...@evergreeninfo.net
>
>
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