At 5:15 PM -0400 5/2/01, Ian Jempson wrote:
>When I use the ilk() function it seems that instances of a parent script
>are shown as #instance. Since I have a list where any given element may be
>one of three different classes, is there any way that lingo can easily
>return the name of the parent script that any arbitrary object is an
>instance of?

If you are using Director 8 or later, you can access the _script_ property
of any script object instance to find out which castmember it was derived
from.
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...---===|  Terry R. Schussler  |===---...
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on visitWebsite yourSelection
 coolSites = [ \
   #greatSeminars : "http://www.macromediaSEMINARS.com/";, \
   #directorUniversity: "http://www.directorU.com";, \
   #freeBehaviors : "http://www.behaviors.com/";]
 gotoNetPage coolSites[yourSelection]
end visitWebsite


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