I use object names in many places in Enlightenment. It makes debugging a
breeze.

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 10:41 AM Andrew Williams <a...@andywilliams.me>
wrote:

> Can we again look at a use case for this? After all a name is just a fancy,
> harder to compare pointer no?
> What does this enable that can't be done otherwise and how do we avoid more
> text IDs that need to be documented etc?
>
> Andrew
> On Tue, 19 Apr 2016 at 13:06, Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 19 Apr 2016 18:12:27 +1000 David Seikel <onef...@gmail.com>
> said:
> >
> > > On Tue, 19 Apr 2016 00:37:20 -0700 Carsten Haitzler
> > > <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > raster pushed a commit to branch master.
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> http://git.enlightenment.org/core/efl.git/commit/?id=86e7d642d595e242137f1c1387f5969e47d9f166
> > > >
> > > > commit 86e7d642d595e242137f1c1387f5969e47d9f166
> > > > Author: Carsten Haitzler (Rasterman) <ras...@rasterman.com>
> > > > Date:   Tue Apr 19 16:34:53 2016 +0900
> > > >
> > > >     eo - add object names/ids esp useful for erigo as it wants object
> > > > names
> > > >     also evas objects have names too, so add this as this was
> > > > discussed and now the feature is in. there is nothing to find objects
> > > > by name yet. that's more api's and features to add after this.
> > >
> > > This smells a lot like that run time eo introspection I asked for and
> > > was turned down before.  It was all too hard, despite the fact I
> > > designed it in a paragraph at the time.  Or is this gonna be everything
> > > but the too hard run time introspection?  Coz no one needs run time
> > > introspection, except erigo maybe.  :-P
> >
> > it's not introspection. it's JUST naming. i'll add some methods to find
> > named
> > objects. we have this in evas already and have had it for years. this
> just
> > puts
> > it at the eo level.. :) this is so you can name a widget in erigo like
> > "mybutton" and find it again at runtime from a given widget tree and find
> > it in
> > CODE.
> >
> > --
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> > The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler)    ras...@rasterman.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
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