getting bogged down with the selectedObject

[RM]

Of course I coped: people have been being rude to me for donkey's ages, 
and I, who, of course, am 'NEVER'
rude, have been being 'DIRECT' for years.

Oddly enough, I couldn't spot your supposed rudeness.

R.

On 30.05.2016 22:10, Colin Holgate wrote:
> It seemed ok. Also, rude is Richmond’s middle name (his parents had a strange sense of humor). I’m sure he coped.
>
>
>> On May 30, 2016, at 3:05 PM, 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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