Re: Best way to refer to objects in groups...
On 20/9/00 9:23 pm, David Bovill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having a lot more problems than I anticipated with uniquely referring to objects within a group. The aim is to do this consistently so that if needed the group can be duplicated on the same card and each group behave as expected. It is hard to tell what happens as there project is too complex for using the debugger, but now it looks as if I can't use the following type expressions: 1) btn x of me 2) btn x of the owner of me The reason for this is that ther are two objects with the same name as me/the owner of me. I'm not sure about the target, and I'm not sure about using: 3) btn x of myGroup (where mygroup = the long id of me) Really appreciate some help on this as it's driving me nuts, as I have so many objects to change the names of for each trial (yes I know I should experiment on a simple test case first). Anyone know a bullet proof way of referring to an object? Preferably something of the form "control someName of someObject" in such a way that these references remain intact iwth cutting and pasting etc... Not sure if I follow exactly what you're trying to do, but can't you use the long ID of the objects inside the groups to parse out the ID of the groups in question, then refer to everything by ID? Regards, Kevin Kevin Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.runrev.com/ Runtime Revolution Limited (formerly Cross Worlds Computing). Tel: +44 (0)131 672 2909. Fax: +44 (0)1639 830 707. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Re: the owner is not always the owner - was best way to refer to objects in groups...
Any objection to changing behavior of "the owner" property so that it returns the long id of the object instead of the name? Seems to me that this will eliminate the ambiguity problem with minimal backward compatibility problems... Regards, Scott Sounds very helpful to me, as I, too, ran into this problem a while back. Is it better to change the behavior of "the owner" or create a new "ownerID" property? Craig -- /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Craig Spooner Instructional Technology Training and Development WebCT Administrator Office of Instructional Services Colorado State University (970) 491-2516 Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
Best way to refer to objects in groups...
Having a lot more problems than I anticipated with uniquely referring to objects within a group. The aim is to do this consistently so that if needed the group can be duplicated on the same card and each group behave as expected. It is hard to tell what happens as there project is too complex for using the debugger, but now it looks as if I can't use the following type expressions: 1) btn x of me 2) btn x of the owner of me The reason for this is that ther are two objects with the same name as me/the owner of me. I'm not sure about the target, and I'm not sure about using: 3) btn x of myGroup (where mygroup = the long id of me) Really appreciate some help on this as it's driving me nuts, as I have so many objects to change the names of for each trial (yes I know I should experiment on a simple test case first). Anyone know a bullet proof way of referring to an object? Preferably something of the form "control someName of someObject" in such a way that these references remain intact iwth cutting and pasting etc... Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not this list.
