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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>When you set the property of an icon using the editor, what you
are doing is setting the value of an attribute in the underlying XML file, like
this:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><DIS name=”The Name For My Icon” id=”myGraphic”
x=”etc”…./><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
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color:#1F497D'>That xml node is used to initiate a MovieClip at runtime. That
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otherwise it gets a computer generated name);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>The values of the attributes in the XML are not necessarily translated
into properties of the resulting movieclip. As you have found, name will return
undefined.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Each icon is a movieclip. Each Icon movieclip has a property called
XMLELement. This is the XML node that was used to initiate the icon.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>So myIcon.XMLElement.attributes.name will contain the value you
entered in the editor.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Hope that helps understand what’s going on.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>J<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><b><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Elly Langewis<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 02 October 2008 11:09<br>
<b>To:</b> Xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] icon property<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Hi Julian,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>In the Help file it says:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>For
an icon with an id of 'myIcon', you can address properties and methods using
the following code:</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Andale Mono"'>myIcon.property = value;</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Andale Mono"'>myIcon.methodName();</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>But myIcon.name does return
'undefined' (for a page).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>I get the value of the property
'name' back with myIcon.title...so my problem is solved, but I do not see why.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Even if I add the property
'title' to the page myIcon.name stays 'undefined', so it is not a mix-up.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Elly<o:p></o:p></p>
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