Managing Long IDs?

[Peter M. Brigham]

Again, sorry for the late reply, but could you use something like this? If you don't really need to use the filepath in your coding, that is.

getProp robustID
   ----  a virtual property, read only  ----
   -- getting the long id of a control can result in different values depending on
   -- (a) where the stack is stored on the user's disk and
   -- (b) which card is the currentcard when the property is fetched
   -- the robustID is consistent no matter what card is current
   -- and no matter which folder the user has stored the stack in;
   -- format: button id 1039 of bkgnd id 1003 of stack "subStack1"
   --            of stack "tMainStack"
   -- the robustID can be used as a complete object reference,
   --    just like the long ID
   
   -- requires q()
   
   put the long id of the target into tLongID
   replace " stack " with cr in tLongID
   put line -1 of tLongID into mainStackFileName
   if not (word 1 of mainStackFileName = "stack") then
      put "stack " before mainStackFileName
   end if
   put the short name of mainStackFileName into mainStackName
   put q(mainStackName) into line -1 of tLongID
   replace cr with " stack " in tLongID
   replace " of " with cr in tLongID
   put lineoffset(cr &"card",cr & tLongID) into cdLineNbr
   if cdLineNbr > 1 then delete line cdLineNbr of tLongID
   replace cr with " of " in tLongID
   replace "group" with "bkgnd" in tLongID
   -- in case the group is not placed on the currentcard
   return tLongID
end robustID

function q str
   -- quote
   return quote & str & quote
end q

-- Peter

Peter M. Brigham
pmbrig at gmail.com
http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig


On Jul 15, 2013, at 7:10 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:

> No, the lists aren't the problem, nor is the storage. The existence of
> commas (and maybe other characters) in the file paths are the problem.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, UX/UI Design
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 7/15/13 4:04 PM, "Monte Goulding" <monte at sweattechnologies.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 16/07/2013, at 9:01 AM, Scott Rossi <scott at tactilemedia.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> The IDs aren't really stored, mostly acted upon.  If any are stored,
>>> it's
>>> only done for the current session.  And yes, I use long IDs in
>>> return-delimited lists.
>> 
>> With multiple items per line? Maybe move to arrays if you need a complex
>> data structure.
>> 
>> --
>> Monte Goulding
>> 
>> M E R Goulding - software development services
>> mergExt - There's an external for that!
>> 
>> 
>> 
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