Dick,
I admire in cleverness of all this, but the code is even worse to
comprehend than assembly language. Seems to me we're going backwards.
Can't we just keep things simple; like with put and get and
meaningful names?
Seems to me we're defeating the whole purpose of Rev.
Just MHO,
Joe Wilkins
On May 26, 2007, at 11:37 AM, Dick Kriesel wrote:
On 5/26/07 3:51 AM, "David Bovill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I like the idea of being able to copy a template
into a stack and still refer to the object by its altID - so
everything
keeps working. The aim is not to have to rename anything in a
script as this
gets messy in a general case.
But if I copy 10 versions to the same stack it won't work with altIDs
because they would all have the same id and as (unlike the case
with normal
ids) - you cant use a syntax like "group id 65535 of card 1" there
is no way
to distinguish them without renaming them.
If you make ten copies of a template, you need to distinguish each
of the
ten somehow. Since you'd rather not rename them "copy1" through
"copy10"
you can identify each copy in a custom property set of the object that
contains them.
<script>
function copyTemplate pTemplateName,pLibraryName,pTarget
put the uTemplateCopies of pTarget into tTemplateCopies
put the keys of tTemplateCopies into tKeys
filter tKeys with pTemplateName,pLibraryName,"*"
put number of lines in tKeys + 1 into tCopyNumber
copy group pTemplateName of stack pLibraryName to pTarget
set the uTemplate of it to pTemplateName,pLibraryName
set the uCopies of group pTemplateName of stack pLibraryName to \
the long id of it
set the uTemplateCopies of pTarget to tTemplateCopies \
& pTemplateName,pLibraryName,tCopyNumber & cr
return tCopyNumber
end copyTemplate
</script>
Then each template knows its copies, each copy knows its template,
and each
target knows which copies of which templates it contains. Your code
can
refer to a control in any of the copies using an "of group id"
clause to
disambiguate the altIDs.
<script>
put the text of control id tAltID of group id \
the uTemplateCopies[tTemplateName,tLibraryName,tCopyNumber] of
tTarget
</script>
Please note that the above code is a suggestion typed into an
email, rather
than tested code copied from a working app. Does the suggestion
work for
you? If you improve the code somehow, please share your results.
-- Dick
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