Re: lingo-l use of ilk()

2001-05-03 Thread Terry R. Schussler
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

lingo-l use of ilk()

2001-05-02 Thread Ian Jempson
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

Re: lingo-l use of ilk()

2001-05-02 Thread Irv Kalb
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