Best Strategies for Duplicating Object

[Brahmanathaswami]

Eric... thanks

that works.

clone button "Create Links"; set the name of  it to "Siva"

I guess this is a documentation bug...under name it says:

"set the [long | abbr[ev[iated] | short] name of object to string"

implies that


clone button "Create Links"; set the short name of  it to "Siva"

should work, but it doesn't

BR

Eric Corbett wrote:
> Try setting the name, not the short name.
>
> I often use templates and copy or clone them. I use template... to create groups usually.
>
> - eric
>
>
> On Dec 1, 2014, at 2:57 PM, Brahmanathaswami wrote:
>
>> I have a little widget I'm creating to help with internal discussion about web site development. To prepare, I could just drag book marks into folders in my browser but that's too weak...
>>
>> So I have a button I can use to drop links onto and this triggers the creation of a new button
>>
>> on dragEnter -- show a green outline around the drop target
>>    set the borderColor of the target to "green"
>>      set the dragaction to "copy"
>> end dragEnter
>>
>>
>> on dragDrop
>>    put the dragData["text"]  into tURL
>>    createButtonLink tURL
>> end dragDrop
>>
>> on createButtonLink tURL
>>    ask "Name your button" with tURL
>>    put it into tButtonName
>>    create button tButtonName
>>    set the script of btn tButtonName to \
>>    "on mouseup"&  cr&  "revGoUrl "&  quote&  tURL&  quote&  cr&   "end mouseup"
>> end createButtonLink
>>
>> I can then set the systemWindow to true and my little pallette rides on top of the screen and I can navigate web pages in Firefox...
>>
>> This worked so nicely I want to make it a bit more robust and perhaps style the buttons. Put a "key point" into a custom property or in the script itself:
>>
>> on mouseup
>>       put "Robust Sidebar" into fld "points"
>> revGoUrl "http://dev.himalayanacademy.com/looklisten/music"
>> end mouseup
>>
>> Now, my question is about best strategies. Of course with LC there's always ten different ways to do things. but if I want to tweak the look and feel of the buttons later, I think I need to include behaviors in the mix...
>>
>> So rather than create a new button.. I could:
>>
>> 1) clone a button with the existing requirement, and then replace strings in the script and set name and the custom prop  for the newly cloned button.
>> 2) perhaps use the "templateButton" but that seems a weak path.
>>
>> What do others do?
>>
>> And how to you change the name of a cloned object in the same script?
>>
>> this:
>>
>> clone button "Create Links"; set the short name of it to "Hello"
>>
>> Generates and error:
>>
>> Script compile error:
>> Error description: seek: missing 'in'
>>
>> but "it" contains a valid button reference... so what is wrong?
>>
>> even this does not work:
>>
>> set the short name of button ID 1037  to "hello"
>>
>> ??
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Swasti Astu, Be Well!
>> Brahmanathaswami
>>
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>>
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