Strange contents of long name

[Peter Haworth]

And if I was in control of that situation, I would do exactly that.
 However, this is in lcStackBrowser, a plugin to run on other peoples'
computers so I have no control over how they create their controls.

Matter of fact, I don't always have control on my own machine - creating a
datagrid results in numerous controls with blank names.

Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>


On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Robert Sneidar <slylabs13 at me.com> wrote:

> You probably have a good case. But as someone once pointed out, the
> situation is averted by always naming your objects when you create them.
>
> Bob
>
>
> On Jan 15, 2013, at 12:10 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
>
> > I think this has been discussed before but it appears that the long name
> of
> > an object sometimes includes IDs rather than names.  Specifically, if a
> > control's name is empty, it's long name will use IDs rather than names
> for
> > all the objects in the control's owner hierarchy even if the owners have
> > non-blank names.
> >
> > This seems wrong to me.  Obviously, it can't use the control's name but
> > that's no reason to not use the names of its owners.
> >
> > I have a handler that is checking for specific name strings in a
> control's
> > long name which will not work because of the above.  It seems my only
> > alternative is to go chasing up the owner hierarchy to check for the
> > string.  I don't know for sure but it seems like that would take a lot
> > longer than parsing the long name.
> >
> > Pete
> > lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
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