Constructing and calling a handler as "do"

[Randall Lee Reetz]

Anyone ever try to set a del to "" or empty?

-----Original Message-----
From: "Björnke von Gierke" <bvg at mac.com>
To: "How to use Revolution" <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: 1/15/2008 7:15 PM
Subject: Re: Constructing and calling a handler as "do"

Although this does not work for handlers, for names of objects I  
always use space. that way I can  say for example:

put word 2 of the short name of button 3 -- "autoName 12" --> 12

or:

clone button x
set the name of it to (the short name of button x && "2") -->  
"originalName 2"

Quite simple to write, read and edit per code...


On 16 Jan 2008, at 03:14, Kay C Lan wrote:

> On Jan 14, 2008 8:18 AM, Randall Lee Reetz  
> <randall at randallreetz.com> wrote:
>
>> I use delimeters so that i can auto deconstruct (this is much  
>> slower if
>> one has to filter for cap letters).
>>
>
> This is lightning bolt brilliant!
>
> I've had the odd occasion where I've needed to be able to  
> 'interpret' and
> 'manipulate' an bunch of object names and have usually resorted to  
> coming up
> with some kind of naming convention that forces a prefix and/or  
> suffix to be
> a fixed number of char long so I can search for 'char 1 to 3' (or 4  
> or 5
> or.....because looking for the offset of the char whose charToNum fell
> between the range of 65 to 90 seemed more difficult to me that just  
> going
> with fixed length prefix/suffix) which typically resulted in names  
> that
> weren't as self evident as I'd like. To use an underscore, change the
> itemDelimiter and search by item is so staring you in the face Rev  
> chunk
> obvious I can't believe I've spent so much time renaming things to  
> fit my
> ever-changing fixed width prefix/suffix system.
>
> I'd like to try and blame Richard, for his excellent 'script style'  
> bible,
> but midWord capitalization for me dates back to the origin of  
> HyperCard so
> it's a habit that clearly blinded me to the advantages that could be
> afforded by using a naming convention which ALSO incorporated taking
> advantage of chunk expressions.
>
> Randall, any tips, tricks or pitfalls to using this approach?
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