[ANN] HOOT: Hacked Object Oriented Transcript

[Mark Wieder]

Scott-

Monday, February 27, 2006, 10:54:27 AM, you wrote:

>> control pID of this stack

> I would be wary of this, from the standpoint of using object references in
> variables.  I've come across intermittent cases in complex scripts where I
> artificially created an object reference by placing something like "image
> xyz of stack abc" into variable, and the engine would sometimes read garbage
> characters in place of the object reference.  I can't explain why, and I
> don't know if long ID parses more reliably than long name (I can say I spent
> many agonizing hours trying to track this down).  In my situation, using the
> long ID appeared to fix the problem.

Yes, thanks for the warning. I don't use object numbers myself and
did, of course, mean to type:

control id pID of this stack

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-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net