Michael,
> Put the timeoutlist[1] works, but I need to access by name, not item,
> because there may be more than one timeout going on. Any ideas?
The timeout list is a _linear_ list of timeout object references, therefore you don't
get named access. Your getPos call will fail because in essence you're searching for
"timeout("wiper")" in the list and you're not going to find it (you're searching a
list of _timeout_object_references_ by calling getPos() and provided a string).
If you need to access by name walk the timeout list and query the name property of
each one until you find the object of concern or not:
tPosn = getTimeoutIndex()
on getTimeoutIndex ()
tIndex = 0
tCount = (the timeoutList).count
repeat with a = 1 to tCount
if (the timeoutList)[1].name = "wiper" then
tIndex = a
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
return tIndex
end getTimeoutIndex
Or you could follow Karina's advice and just access the object by name, the trouble
with that is if you're trying to see if a timeout object by the name of "wiper" exists
or not. The moment you use 'timeout("wiper")' the object will be created if it doesn't
exist already. So if you just need to access it, follow Karina's idea. If you need to
detect whether a timeout with a given name exists, then follow something like my idea
above.
Cheers,
Tom Higgins
Product Specialist - Director Team
Macromedia
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