setting a behavior with out using an ID

[Richard Gaskin]

Good to see you here, Todd -

 > I don’t like to use IDs to reference Objects.  But it seems that
 > the only way you can reference a Behavior is with it’s ID. Is
 > that true?  Is there another way?

While long IDs are normally problematic since they include the file path 
to the object (which will of course change as soon as the object is 
moved to another machine), behaviors are stored with a sort of truncated 
long ID - from the Dictionary entry for "behavior":

    The behavior property is a reference to a button containing
    the script to use.  The format stored in the object it's
    assigned to is similar to a long ID, except that a long ID
    includes the full path to the stack file and the form stored
    in the behavior includes only the stack name, allowing the
    reference to continue to work after the stack file has been
    moved to another computer.

If your concern is simply the lack of mnemonic value in ID numbers, if 
you're doing a lot of dynamic behavior assignments it's only an few 
extra tokens to translate a name to a long ID:

    set the behavior of grc 1 to \
      (the long id of btn "cSplitter" of stack "AppResources")

In most common usage scenarios behaviors are set only once (usually 
during development than at runtime), so we rarely have to script 
anything like that at all, and just past a long ID reference into the 
appropriate slot in the Inspector.

I know you do adventurous work though, so it wouldn't surprise me if you 
had a system that needs a lot of dynamic assignments.

If neither of these address your concerns, please tell us what your goal 
is and I'll bet there's an efficient way to satisfy it.

In fact, I'll bet you dinner at the next SoCal LiveCode Group meeting. :)

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems
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