I went ahead and fixed this. In my working copy of Navigator the property is displayed as being "name" but displays the short name. Editing it sets the name. I made some fundamental changes to the way Navigator works over the past few days so I'm going to use it for a bit before releasing it.
gc On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 4:23 PM Geoff Canyon <gcan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yeah (sigh) it's down to the fact that you can *get* the short name of > something, but you can't *set* the short name of something. So I need to > special case that one property :-( > > It's been an annoyance forever, but I always put off fixing it because it > offends me. > > But since you brought it up I'll go ahead and special case it. Any > preference on whether I should call the property "name" but special case to > display/edit the short name, or instead to call the property "short name" > but set the name? I lean toward continuing to call the property "name" and > special case the display, but I'm open to arguments. > > gc > > On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 3:54 PM Mark Wieder via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > >> On 09/24/2018 08:19 PM, Geoff Canyon via use-livecode wrote: >> > As usual, you can get Navigator here >> > <https://www.dropbox.com/s/kz3zqi4botzglgq/navigator.zip?dl=1>. Or >> grab it >> > from GitHub <https://github.com/gcanyon/navigator>. >> >> Due to the huge number of behavior scripts (rev_b_*, rev_c_*, rev_f_*, >> rev_g_*, rev_i_*, rev_s_*...) I can't figure out how to fix this for >> you, so it's in your court: >> >> Getting the card list for a stack shows >> card "name_of_card_1" >> card "name_of_card_2" >> etc. >> >> Editing the properties to change the card name, the value is also >> card "name_of_card_1" rather than the short name. If I edit the name and >> save it, then refresh the card list (problem #1 is that the list should >> refresh automatically after the change is made), the card is named >> card "card "name_of_card_1"", adding another "card". >> So problem #2 is that the card list display shows a "card" identifier >> and this is erroneously copied into the the value field for the card >> name, compounded by the fact that when the new card name is saved extra >> quotes are added to the card name whether or not they're needed. >> >> And I verified that it actually does change the card name thusly, so >> it's not just a display issue. >> >> -- >> Mark Wieder >> ahsoftw...@gmail.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
