On Jan 20, 2007, at 4:57 PM, Phil Davis wrote:
Mark Wieder wrote:
Chipp-
Saturday, January 20, 2007, 6:57:21 AM, you wrote:
'avoid time wasting confusion', then why even allow controls or
objects with
the same name?
Yep - this has bothered me for a long time, too. I'd certainly
support
a referendum to disallow objects with the same name, but I'm
afraid it
would break backward compatibility. VB supports object instancing in
the form of group "America"[2], but I don't care much for the syntax.
But the same-named object thing can sometimes be used to advantage.
Consider this:
on mouseUp
put the groupIDs of this cd into tGroupList
repeat for each line tTargetID in tGroupList
switch (short name of grp id tTargetID)
case "Section"
doSectionStuff tTargetID
break
case "Page"
doPageStuff tTargetID
break
case "Chapter"
doChapterStuff tTargetID
break
end switch
end repeat
end mouseUp
I use Phil's suggested strategy - of having multiple objects with the
same name, and using the name as a kind of visible and easily
scriptable 'type' property - all the time. I find it a great
convenience. In addition, when I deploy compound objects that I want
to update and refine (like Chipp's AltFldHeader), I append a suffix
to the control name of each instance, e.g. MyComplexGroup_1, and
update the groups with a utility script that locates and replaces all
the groups in a project stack. The tricky part was getting the layer
right, preserving the size, and transferring custom properties. But
now that the work is done, I just click a button in the stack where I
develop the group and presto! all instances are updated.
It does take a bit of discipline though, to be strict about naming.
I too long for the day when we have real custom controls!
t
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Tereza Snyder
Califex Software, Inc.
www.califexsoftware.com
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