The whole id number thing

[MisterX]

Shari,

The quick and dirty solution i found was to use imageID&&imageName as
the name... This works quite well. You could eventually put stackname &&
imageid as well.

What is really missing though is a "if there is an image id x" that
looks in all stacks because if images have a global behavior which they 
do, the there an image should work that way too...

BTW, 2.6 seems to generate new ids for images... Did i miss that one too in
the what's new? ;)

cheers
Xavier

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:metacard-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Shari
> Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 13:18
> To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: The whole id number thing
> 
> 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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