The whole id number thing

[Shari]

I ended up using Xavier's solution of creating a cloned object to 
change the id, though I still swear somebody actually had another way.

It's kind of a bugger because I name everything, but even that 
doesn't avoid conflict.  I imported a graphic and named it.  Then set 
the icon of a button to the imported graphic, using its name.

set the icon of btn someButton to "nameOfGraphic"

But apparently the graphic which was in another stack, had a 
duplicate id number to something in Metacard, even though its id 
number was very high.  And the icon was a question mark, which I 
never could find in Metacard's stacks.

Using the graphic's name didn't override anything.  It still turned 
the name into the id number, then promptly pulled Metacard's graphic 
with that id number.  I cloned the object and deleted the original 
and this fixed it.  But still would have been nice to have been able 
to change the number.

I thought all of Metacard's built in graphics used id numbers under 1000?

Shari
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