Anyway to find the long id of an image which you know the id for?

[Richard Gaskin]

J. Landman Gay wrote:

> On 6/24/11 8:58 PM, Chipp Walters wrote:
>> You can set the icon of a button to an image ID. But if you want to resize
>> the button based on the size of the image, you need to find a way to
>> reference the image. Of course the image could be in the topStack, and this
>> would be no problem. But if not, the following throws an error.:
>>
>> set the icon of btn "hello" to 21234
>> put the formattedheight of image id 21234 into tH
>>
>> I suspect one can 'walk' all open stacks, and perhaps that's what I'll end
>> up doing, but was hoping someone had an easier solution-- or the stack
>> walking code ;-)
>>
>
> Try:
>
>    get the long name of img id 21234
>
> or:
>
>    get the long name of img id (the icon of btn "hello")

I believe such references only work when the image object referred to is 
on the current card.

I don't know of a way to find the long id of an image except by walking 
through a list of possible containers....

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