getting bogged down with the selectedObject

Colin Holgate colinholgate at gmail.com
Mon May 30 15:10:52 EDT 2016


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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