Case Study: Behaviors Failing - Can't set break points

[Bob Sneidar]

Ok, got it. NOW I know everything! I was just missing that little bit. ;-)

Bob


On Dec 27, 2011, at 12:57 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Bob Sneidar wrote:
> 
> > On Dec 27, 2011, at 12:28 PM, Todd Geist wrote:
> >> It starts as this
> >>
> >> button id 1004 of card id 1002 of stack "/Users/todd/Desktop/A.livecode"
> >>
> >> it changes to this
> >>
> >> button id 1004 of stack "A"
> >
> > That is still the long ID.
> 
> Sort of.  A true long ID includes the file path, but behaviors use a special form of that descriptor format with the short name of the stack, for portability as Todd surmised.
> 
> This sort of "truncated long ID" is useful in other areas as well, and FWIW I submitted a request to have a "truncated" keyword added to return that value for object references:
> <http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7608>
> 
> It's not too hard to write a function to do this, but since apparently the engine already does this for behaviors it would be handy to have it accessible to us in scripts.
> 
> --
> Richard Gaskin
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