Agreed. It's annoying that my code is now uglier because of this one special case -- although to be fair, Navigator is a fifteen-year-old plate of spaghetti.
On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 5:54 PM Mark Wieder via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > On 10/01/2018 05:28 PM, Geoff Canyon via use-livecode wrote: > > I went ahead and fixed this. In my working copy of Navigator the property > > is displayed as being "name" but displays the short name. Editing it sets > > the name. I made some fundamental changes to the way Navigator works over > > the past few days so I'm going to use it for a bit before releasing it. > > Yeah, to my thinking that's the way it should work. I think the only > time I want the "name" of something rather than the "short name" is when > I need to differentiate between different types of objects, such as when > I'm iterating through the child controls of a group. Otherwise I just > grab the short name, edit it, and put it back where I found it. > > -- > Mark Wieder > ahsoftw...@gmail.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 > _______________________________________________ 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
