Object paths?

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Mon Jul 19 02:33:05 EDT 2004


Troy Rollins wrote:

> 
> On Jul 18, 2004, at 11:24 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> 
>> You mean, like:
>>
>> set the clipboardData to the long name of the selectedObject
> 
> 
> Yes, I suppose so. This isn't something the IDE has built-in, I take it? 
> Seems like it should be supported via a context menu item in your 
> stacks, as well as the context menu in the application browser.
> 
> Ah well, I guess that's the beauty of a modifiable IDE. I suppose I can 
> add something as a plug in. Typing some of those paths is tedious, and I 
> don't even see anything which actually displays the full path to the 
> object, even if it doesn't go as far as putting it on the clipboard.

If the goal is to paste it into a script, the long ID is probably not 
what you want, since it will include the file path to the mainstack the 
object is in.

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