On Mar 30, 2016, at 9:53 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > In all cases, once set a behavior is resolved to a "rugged long ID", a long > ID where the stack portion is changed from the full file path as we normally > find it to just the stack name, allowing portability. > > For example: > > button id 1004 of cd id 1003 of stack "/home/rg/something/rsrc.livecode" > > ...becomes: > > button id of cd id 1003 of stack "rsrc" > > > So when using a stack as a behavior you can write: > > set the behavior of btn "Something" to the long id of stack "rsrc" > > ...or even more simply, since stack names are already unique: > > set the behavior of btn "Something" to the name of stack "rsrc"
FWIW, here are some handlers that return these "rugged" object references. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig -------- 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 not (there is a tLongID) then -- in case the group is not placed on the currentcard replace "group " with "bkgnd " in tLongID if not (there is a tLongID) then return "robustID: no such object." -- error end if 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 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 not (there is a tLongName) then -- in case the group is not placed on the currentcard replace "group " with "bkgnd " in tLongName if not (there is a tLongName) then return "robustName: no such object." -- error end if end if replace " stack " with cr in tLongName put line -1 of tLongName into mainStackFileName if the number of lines of tLongName = 1 then return the name of mainStackFileName end if 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 thisName put thisName into line c of tLongName end repeat replace cr with " of " in tLongName return tLongName end robustName function q pStr -- quote return quote & pStr & quote end q _______________________________________________ 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
