On 6/20/07, Devin Asay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I like this technique, but there are lots of times when I've created a button, given it a name and label, then down the road decided that the label isn't exactly right and needs to be changed for clarity's sake. Often in these cases I have already referred to the button many times in handlers, so it becomes a chore to rename the button. So you would lose one of the main advantages of the capability of having the name and the label be different.
Not so, and is in fact one of the reasons I like following the pattern of ensuring the label and the name are the same (which typically are identical to the MySQL column name I'm retrieving the data from). Should I decide down the track that the name, either in MySQL or Rev needs to change to something better, in Rev you simply open up the IDE Find and Replace (not the in script Search). In most cases, because the original name is self explanatory it is highly likely that it is unique so a global Find and Replace is OK, but if you're way into a project and you discover you've just created your 15th "Next" button and figure maybe some buttons should be named/labeled 'Next Card', 'Next Page', 'Next Chapter', 'Next Week', etc etc, the Find and Replace does a great (but slow) job of identifying the actual control or a reference to it in a script. Yes, if you had 15 Next buttons with 10s of references to each of them in scripts, changing them at a later date would be a pain, which of course is the reason for the 'best practice' to intentionally avoid the generic 'Next' and think of a 'descriptive' name; is it Next Job, Next Pay, Next Dance, etc etc. If you can be descriptive enough to avoid repetition then changing names/labels/references down the track is relatively straight forward. [Tangent] Anyone using the Free version of Galaxy should be aware that it doesn't come with global Find and Replace so you have to use the Rev IDE Find and Replace. Unfortunately, due to the way Galaxy interacts with Rev any script changes you make with the IDE Find and Replace will not be recognised in Galaxy so when you return to Galaxy to do more scripting all those global replaces are lost. If you need to do a Find and Replace you need to turn Free Galaxy off. This is NOT an issue with the full version of Galaxy which comes with global Find and Replace. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
