So Alex, the takeaway here seems to be that once you name your child objects… “now it’s too late.”
While reading this out aloud, I taught my classes of 2nd and 3rd graders to say, “Noooooo” after the second line. And I usually paused to let the class finish Oliver Boliver’s name. — Scott Morrow Elementary Software (Now with 20% less chalk dust!) web https://elementarysoftware.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ > On Jul 27, 2020, at 10:24 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Consider a simplified problem statement: > > You have two objects of the same type in a container, and you want to tell > them apart but had given them the same name. > > > > Too Many Daves > by Dr. Seuss > > Did I ever tell you that Mrs. McCave > Had twenty-three sons and she named them all Dave? > Well, she did. And that wasn't a smart thing to do. > You see, when she wants one and calls out, "Yoo-Hoo! > Come into the house, Dave!" she doesn't get one. > All twenty-three Daves of hers come on the run! > This makes things quite difficult at the McCaves' > As you can imagine, with so many Daves. > And often she wishes that, when they were born, > She had named one of them Bodkin Van Horn > And one of them Hoos-Foos. And one of them Snimm. > And one of them Hot-Shot. And one Sunny Jim. > And one of them Shadrack. And one of them Blinkey. > And one of them Stuffy. And one of them Stinkey. > Another one Putt-Putt. Another one Moon Face. > Another one Marvin O'Gravel Balloon Face. > And one of them Ziggy. And one Soggy Muff. > One Buffalo Bill. And one Biffalo Buff. > And one of them Sneepy. And one Weepy Weed. > And one Paris Garters. And one Harris Tweed. > And one of them Sir Michael Carmichael Zutt > And one of them Oliver Boliver Butt > And one of them Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate ... > But she didn't do it. And now it's too late. > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > > >> Alex Tweedly alex at tweedly.net >> Mon Jul 27 15:47:12 EDT 2020 >> Previous message (by thread): Object naming >> Next message (by thread): Object naming >> Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] >> On 27/07/2020 16:33, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: >>> There are many ways to refer to things. The simplest is to use unambiguous >>> names for things that matter. >>> >> Is there an unambiguous name in this case ? And if so, what is it :-) ? >> A group "A" contains a rectangle "R", and a (sub)group "B". "B" also >> contains a rectangle "R". (btw - "B" also may contain a subgroup "C", and it >> too will have a rectangle "R", and ....). >> There is an unambiguous name for the 'most nested' "R", but there doesn't >> seem to be for the other "R"s. I had expected (or perhaps just hoped) that >> using a long name would first try to find an exact match, and if that failed >> it would then find the closest inexact match - but that sadly was just a >> hope. >> I could (and probably will) use IDs but that doesn't work for duplicating >> the group - you need to either go in and adjust a script / custom property >> OR have the group's script find the IDs. >> Or - am I'm missing something ? >> Alex. > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
