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> Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 09:24:54 -0500
> From: "RJay Hansen" <email@hidden>
> Subject: control object names
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> Quick question.
>
> If you have two windows w/similar controls, is it a problem to assign
> the same name to a similar control in each window?
>
> For example, the default button on two different windows may be a
> "Save" button. Could you name them both "saveNow" as long as you
> specified which window they were attached to when addressing them (eg.
> button "saveNow" of window "mainWindow")?
Actually, sometimes it makes sense to name them all the same if they do the
same thing. In code, you could handle them like:
on clicked theObject
set theName to (name of theObject) -- should be a string
if theName is equal to "saveNow" then
-- do something here
else if theName is equal to "somethingElse"
.
etc...
.
end if
end clicked
I would only give the buttons separate names and/or sort them by which
window they belong to if they were doing different things. You can also use
the same button name (as above) but use the tag of the button to determine a
second level of identification or carry auxiliary data:
on clicked theObject
set theName to (name of theObject)
set theTag to (tag of the Object) -- an integer
if theName is equal to "saveNow" then
goDoSomething(theTag)
else if theName is equal to "somethingElse"
.
etc...
.
end if
end clicked
Whatever you do to minimize the number of if statements inside the on
clicked handler is good for app responsiveness.
Craig
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Dr. Craig Hunter
NASA Langley Research Center
Configuration Aerodynamics Branch
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