Upper/Lower case issue

[Chipp Walters]

Pete,

I'm coming a bit late to this but...

You do understand that a button's name is different from it's label. 

You can have a button named "fred1" with it's label set to:

fred

And another buttoned named "fred2" with it's label set to:

FRED

So the end user sees the difference as only upper and lower case, whereas your program differentiates them correctly by their unique names. 

I wasn't sure this was clear to you. 



Chipp Walters
CEO Shafer Walters Group, Inc

On Jul 2, 2011, at 2:26 PM, Pete <pete at mollysrevenge.com> wrote:

> Thanks for all the good suggestions, they all have merit but I don't feel
> any of them are any better or worse than what I'm already doing.  I
> understand and agree with the need to avoid duplicate object names but, once
> again, these are not duplicate names in any generally accepted sense of the
> word no matter what LC thinks of them - their case makes them unique - so I
> don't feel like I'm breaking any golden programming rules.
> 
> 
> Pete
> Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 9:42 AM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>wrote:
> 
>> On 7/2/11 12:27 AM, Pete wrote:
>> 
>>> But they're not the same name - one is upper case and one is lower case.
>>> LC
>>> made a decision to treat them the same since casesensitive doesn't apply
>>> to
>>> object names, but they are different by any other definition.
>>> 
>> 
>> The entire engine is case insensitive, not just object names. That's why we
>> have a way to force case sensitivity for strings.
>> 
>> 
>> I'm sure there are other ways to do this - with custom properties for
>>> example.  But I can't think of any practical downside to using the button
>>> names, although I'm ready to hear any.
>>> 
>> 
>> I'm of the school that also avoids duplicate object names. In this case I'd
>> probably name the buttons with a space and a number after the duplicate part
>> of the name, and then when processing them, refer to "word 1 of the short
>> name of btn x" to get the necessary info.
>> 
>> --
>> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>> 
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