Troy, is there some specific reason you need to get the long name (or long identifier) of an object? The only reason I ask is that 99% of the time I don't need long identifiers; either a short (fld "Test") or abbreviated (fld "Test" of group "MyGroup") identifier has usually worked for me.
Just curious, Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Troy Rollins > Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 8:22 PM > To: How to use Revolution > Subject: Object paths? > > > I wondering if there is an easy way (which I haven't yet > found) to get > an object's path onto the clipboard for pasting into a > script. Ideally, > I would have though there would be something in the Rev context menus > along the lines of "copy the short name, and copy the long name" for > the selected object. I somewhat surprised there isn't, or > doesn't seem > to be, considering how many times these things have to be typed, and > how much typing that can sometimes take. I haven't even found > a way to > see the entire path to an object, other than in the tooltips for the > application browser, which is somewhat less than what I'm looking for. > > Is there already some means to do this, and I have overlooked it? > > e.g. select and object, do something which copies its path to the > clipboard, paste into the script window, and get a result like - > > button "myButton" of group "MainControls" of group "ControlPanel" of > card "Main Interface" of stack "My cool program" > > Seems to me, that since it can sometimes take that much typing (or > more) to path to an object, there must be some way, and I > just haven't > uncovered it. > > Thanks for any info. > -- > Troy > RPSystems, Ltd. > http://www.rpsystems.net > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
