On Jul 20, 2004, at 12:56 AM, Ken Ray wrote:
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.
Who knows? ;-)
To be honest, I'm never quite sure what level of path I need. I've probably been "over-pathing" the whole time. I found that I got a lot of "can't find this or that" errors... usually because something was in a group (I think). A lot of this leads back to the questions I had about the message path not long ago. Frankly, I think I'm still a bit bewildered about just what is available when, and from where. Most of my problems went away if I used explicit paths to objects and their scripts, so I'm probably over-compensating and "spelling it out" all the time. The whole shifting of the defaultStack, the scope of "this (object)", I probably don't understand the rules under Transcript - so I've been using what I got working.
Believe me, I'd rather use the shortest path... some of the paths I've been using are downright (the "U" of the "G" of the "L" of the "Y"). ;-)
I'm writing software that works well in Transcript, but I'm a long way from understanding it, and it is a long way from what I know.
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Troy
RPSystems, Ltd.
http://www.rpsystems.net
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