[Xerte] Updating IconIDs

[Julian Tenney]

You can't use a number as an iconID. You need something valid, like
id100.

 

References are not updated, no. The way to minimise any disrtuption is
to be a bit more dynamic in your code:

 

myIcon = Icon.parentNode().clip(); //returns the page icon the script is
in

myIcon.blah

 

that way, you don't need to actually give icons IDs quite a lot of the
time.

 

Set embedVars to 1 to have 'Hello {forename} {surname}, how are you
today?' work in a display icon. If those values change, you can update
the display icon with your code:

 

myDisplayIcon.setText(myIcon.rawText); //or something like that...
...maybe a iconID.refreshText() method would be useful

 

J

 

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Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2009 4:32 AM
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Updating IconIDs

 

Am I wrong here or does Xerte not update referenced iconID's when they
are changed?  

 

For instance if I make an icon ID '100' and reference it from 5 places,
then later change the icon ID to '101' - the 5 referenced places do not
change, correct?  They need to be manually changed? Is there any way to
deal with this other than the 'Find' feature?

 

Other question: Is there any direct equivalent in Xerte to AW's 'call
and return' navigation and the 'update displayed variables' checkbox on
display icons?

 

TIA

RonM2

 

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