An easy way is to take use a string version of the object reference,
take word 2 of it, then strip the first and last characters. I've
got one right here:
showglobals
-- Global Variables --
version = "8.5"
goGame = <offspring "Game" 1 b9fed20>
goSongPlayer = <offspring "SongPlayer" 1 ba0ac54>
theRef = string(goGame)
theName = word 2 of theRef
put theName
-- ""Game""
delete char 1 of theName
delete the last char of theName
put theName
-- "Game"
Irv
At 5:15 PM -0400 5/2/01, Ian Jempson wrote:
>When I use the ilk() function it seems that instances of a parent script
>are shown as #instance. Since I have a list where any given element may be
>one of three different classes, is there any way that lingo can easily
>return the name of the parent script that any arbitrary object is an
>instance of?
>
>I suppose I could write a method in each class to return the name of the
>parent script. just thought I would check if there is any easier way...
>
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