altID

[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

Dick,

I admire in cleverness of all this, but the code is even worse to  
comprehend than assembly language. Seems to me we're going backwards.  
Can't we just keep things simple; like with put and get and  
meaningful names?

Seems to me we're defeating the whole purpose of Rev.

Just MHO,

Joe Wilkins

On May 26, 2007, at 11:37 AM, Dick Kriesel wrote:

> On 5/26/07 3:51 AM, "David Bovill" <david at openpartnership.net> wrote:
>
>> I like the idea of being able to copy a template
>> into a stack and still refer to the object by its altID - so  
>> everything
>> keeps working. The aim is not to have to rename anything in a  
>> script as this
>> gets messy in a general case.
>>
>> But if I copy 10 versions to the same stack it won't work with altIDs
>> because they would all have the same id and as (unlike the case  
>> with normal
>> ids) - you cant use a syntax like "group id 65535 of card 1" there  
>> is no way
>> to distinguish them without renaming them.
>
> If you make ten copies of a template, you need to distinguish each  
> of the
> ten somehow.  Since you'd rather not rename them "copy1" through  
> "copy10"
> you can identify each copy in a custom property set of the object that
> contains them.
>
> <script>
> function copyTemplate pTemplateName,pLibraryName,pTarget
>   put the uTemplateCopies of pTarget into tTemplateCopies
>   put the keys of tTemplateCopies into tKeys
>   filter tKeys with pTemplateName,pLibraryName,"*"
>   put number of lines in tKeys + 1 into tCopyNumber
>   copy group pTemplateName of stack pLibraryName to pTarget
>   set the uTemplate of it to pTemplateName,pLibraryName
>   set the uCopies of group pTemplateName of stack pLibraryName to \
>     the long id of it
>   set the uTemplateCopies of pTarget to tTemplateCopies \
>     & pTemplateName,pLibraryName,tCopyNumber & cr
>   return tCopyNumber
> end copyTemplate
> </script>
>
> Then each template knows its copies, each copy knows its template,  
> and each
> target knows which copies of which templates it contains. Your code  
> can
> refer to a control in any of the copies using an "of group id"  
> clause to
> disambiguate the altIDs.
>
> <script>
>   put the text of control id tAltID of group id \
>     the uTemplateCopies[tTemplateName,tLibraryName,tCopyNumber] of  
> tTarget
> </script>
>
> Please note that the above code is a suggestion typed into an  
> email, rather
> than tested code copied from a working app.  Does the suggestion  
> work for
> you?  If you improve the code somehow, please share your results.
>
> -- Dick
>
>
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