getting bogged down with the selectedObject

[RM]

"I'm just socially inept."

Don't let that worry you for a moment; you are not the only one
who suffers from that problem round here.

Should you require any advice I am extremely well qualified at
how to put one's foot in one's mouth.

Richmond.

On 30.05.2016 22:05, dsc at swcp.com wrote:
> Yikes.  That came out sounding rude.  Not my intent.  I'm just socially inept.
>
> And eventually you might want to handle the case of multiple selected objects.
>
>> On May 30, 2016, at 1:00 PM, Dar Scott <dsc at swcp.com> wrote:
>>
>> Shouldn't the selected object list be empty in that case?  Can you check that?
>>
>> Or are you getting a crash in just doing this:
>>
>> get the selectedObject
>>
>> Dar
>> darzLab
>>
>>
>>> On May 30, 2016, at 12:43 PM, RM <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> So; here I am mucking around with my alternative front-end and have a merry little button
>>> with this script in it:
>>>
>>> on mouseUp
>>>   put fld "nname" into NN
>>>   set the name of the selectedObject to NN
>>> end mouseUp
>>>
>>> which, unsurprisingly perhaps, changes the name of a selectedObject
>>> in the topStack [which is what it is meant to do].
>>>
>>> However, I cannot work out how to stop the button "throwing a bluey"
>>> when nothing is selected.
>>>
>>> Richmond.
>>>
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