AW: how to adress the object name and not the number?

[Tiemo Hollmann TB]

Good point Bill. Thanks for sharing!
Tiemo

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution-
> bounces at lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Bill Marriott
> Gesendet: Freitag, 20. April 2007 02:14
> An: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Betreff: Re: how to adress the object name and not the number?
> 
> The recommendation to name objects starting with a letter and then a
> number
> is simply a "must" because as others have pointed out there can be
> ambiguity
> when referencing objects named with simply a number. Two additions to the
> excellent ideas:
> 
> 1) Remember that the object number always refers to its layer. Lower-
> numbers
> are below higher-numbered ones.
> 
> 2) I have found it very helpful to insert a space before the prefix and
> the
> number when naming objects sequentially -- e.g.: "Cell 1" rather than
> "Cell1" -- because then it's a lot easier to find out what number you've
> given that object using Rev's "word" chunk later on.
> 
> For example, suppose you've created an array of fields this way:
> 
>   put "Qty,Part Number,Description,Unit Price,Extended Price" into
> theHeaders
>   repeat for each item columnName in theHeaders
>         repeat with i = 1 to 20
>       put columnName && i into thisCell -- the && concatenates with a
> space
> between
>       create fld thisCell
>       set the rect of fld thisCell to \
>           startLefts[columnName],rowHeight *
> (i-1),startLefts[columnName]+colWidths[columnName],rowHeight * i
>       set the lockText of fld thisCell to true
>     end repeat
>   end repeat
> 
> (Leaving out setup of the arrays) Then, when someone clicks on one of the
> cells, you can hilight the entire row very simply with this script in the
> group:
> 
> on mouseup
>    put the last word of the short name of the target into theLine
>    repeat for each item columnName in theHeaders
>       put columnName && theLine into thisCell
>       set the backgroundColor of fld thisCell to yellow
>    end repeat
> end mouseup
> 
> or, less verbosely,
> 
> on mouseup
>   repeat for each item c in theHeaders
>     set  fillBack of fld (c && last word of short name of target) to
> yellow
>   end repeat
> end mouseup
> 
> By using "the last word" you've gotten the number of the corresponding
> elements painlessly.
> 
> 
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