Strange contents of long name

[Richard Gaskin]

Geoff Canyon wrote:

> Long IDs are your friend here, especially given that you can use them so
> cleanly in a variable:
>
> set the label of tID to "HA"
>
> This works a treat, although you have to watch out for changing file
> references if you store a long id from one session to the next (and maybe
> even during a session? I haven't checked).

FWIW, I submitted a request some time ago for a "truncated ID" option 
which uses the stack name instead of the stack path, similar to what the 
engine does when storing behavior references:

<http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7608>

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