Ok, got it. NOW I know everything! I was just missing that little bit. ;-) Bob
On Dec 27, 2011, at 12:57 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Bob Sneidar wrote: > > > On Dec 27, 2011, at 12:28 PM, Todd Geist wrote: > >> It starts as this > >> > >> button id 1004 of card id 1002 of stack "/Users/todd/Desktop/A.livecode" > >> > >> it changes to this > >> > >> button id 1004 of stack "A" > > > > That is still the long ID. > > Sort of. A true long ID includes the file path, but behaviors use a special > form of that descriptor format with the short name of the stack, for > portability as Todd surmised. > > This sort of "truncated long ID" is useful in other areas as well, and FWIW I > submitted a request to have a "truncated" keyword added to return that value > for object references: > <http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7608> > > It's not too hard to write a function to do this, but since apparently the > engine already does this for behaviors it would be handy to have it > accessible to us in scripts. > > -- > 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
