I rarely get to act like a pedantic jerk, especially towards a highly respected and iconic personage such as Richard Gaskin.
Not kidding about any of item 2 of line 1. But ordinal would be 'first control". Cardinal would be "control 1" That felt better than I thought it would. I am sure I will regret it, though. No kidding about item 1 of line 5. Craig -----Original Message----- From: Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> To: use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> Sent: Fri, Oct 7, 2011 6:43 am Subject: Re: Object Naming Conventions Pete wrote: > Thanks Mark, that's what I was looking for. > Pete > > On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Mark Wieder <mwieder at ahsoftware.net> wrote: > >> Phil- >> >> Thursday, October 6, 2011, 12:28:38 PM, you wrote: >> >> > Here is an excellent starting point: >> > http://fourthworld.com/embassy/articles/scriptstyle.html >> >> > Go to the "Naming Conventions" part. >> >> In addition to what's in Richard's writeup I tend to use the following >> conventions... Good stuff, Mark. Oddly enough, for all the tediously curmudgeonry in my naming conventions article, it doesn't deal much with object names, only variables, handlers, etc. In code, object names usually appear after a type specifier, e.g.: click at the loc of btn "btnSend" ...so it never occurred to me to prefix the object name itself. This prompted me to try something I'd never used before, addressing a control using only the "control" specifier followed by the name: put the rect of control "btnSend" Sure enough, it works. I don't know why this surprises me, since I've been using ordinal reference with "control" for years, e.g.: repeat with i = 1 to the number of controls get the rect of control i ... Somehow I'd gotten the idea that the "control" specifier was limited to ordinal references, but apparently it's not. So thanks for your post. It prompted me to learn something new, and if I get time I may add a section to that article on object names. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode