Am 07.10.2005 um 18:25 schrieb Valentin Schmidt:

hi list,

does anyone know a way to check for the existence of a member with a given name that works for both dmx and dmx2004? I know the following 2 methods, but it would be nicer to have a consistent method for all versions:

on memberExists  (someName)
 return (member(someName).membernum > 0) -- only for dir < 10
 return (not voidP(member(someName))) -- only for dir >=10
end

here's what I use:


on mGetMemType memref
  if ilk(memref) <> #member then return #empty
  return memref.type
end



if mGetMemType(member("something")) = #bitmap then ....


I didn't come up with a one-liner.

while I appreciate the fact, that lingo is much more consistent and tidy since D10, I liked the old *sluggish* behavior of returning always a member reference of type #empty regardless what.

since very much of my code relied on that I continued to use it via my own "two line" check.



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