Object naming

[Martin Koob]

Stop dave.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibfQX11aPmg


> On Jul 28, 2020, at 4:57 PM, Jerry Jensen via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Dave’s not here.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtDAK7Umk7A
> 
>> On Jul 27, 2020, at 10:24 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Consider a simplified problem statement:
>> 
>> You have two objects of the same type in a container, and you want to tell them apart but had given them the same name.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>  Too Many Daves
>>  by Dr. Seuss
>> 
>>  Did I ever tell you that Mrs. McCave
>>  Had twenty-three sons and she named them all Dave?
>>  Well, she did. And that wasn't a smart thing to do.
>>  You see, when she wants one and calls out, "Yoo-Hoo!
>>  Come into the house, Dave!" she doesn't get one.
>>  All twenty-three Daves of hers come on the run!
>>  This makes things quite difficult at the McCaves'
>>  As you can imagine, with so many Daves.
>>  And often she wishes that, when they were born,
>>  She had named one of them Bodkin Van Horn
>>  And one of them Hoos-Foos. And one of them Snimm.
>>  And one of them Hot-Shot. And one Sunny Jim.
>>  And one of them Shadrack. And one of them Blinkey.
>>  And one of them Stuffy. And one of them Stinkey.
>>  Another one Putt-Putt. Another one Moon Face.
>>  Another one Marvin O'Gravel Balloon Face.
>>  And one of them Ziggy. And one Soggy Muff.
>>  One Buffalo Bill. And one Biffalo Buff.
>>  And one of them Sneepy. And one Weepy Weed.
>>  And one Paris Garters. And one Harris Tweed.
>>  And one of them Sir Michael Carmichael Zutt
>>  And one of them Oliver Boliver Butt
>>  And one of them Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate ...
>>  But she didn't do it. And now it's too late.
>> 
>> --
>> Richard Gaskin
>> Fourth World Systems
>> 
>> 
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>>> On 27/07/2020 16:33, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
>>>> There are many ways to refer to things.  The simplest is to use unambiguous names for things that matter.
>>>> 
>>> Is there an unambiguous name in this case ? And if so, what is it :-) ?
>>> A group "A" contains a rectangle "R", and a (sub)group "B". "B" also contains a rectangle "R". (btw - "B" also may contain a subgroup "C", and it too will have a rectangle "R", and ....).
>>> There is an unambiguous name for the 'most nested' "R", but there doesn't seem to be for the other "R"s. I had expected (or perhaps just hoped) that using a long name would first try to find an exact match, and if that failed it would then find the closest inexact match - but that sadly was just a hope.
>>> I could (and probably will) use IDs but that doesn't work for duplicating the group - you need to either go in and adjust a script / custom property OR have the group's script find the IDs.
>>> Or - am I'm missing something ?
>>> Alex.
>> 
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