[Xerte] Xerte3: getting the name of an icon

[Peter Huppertz]

Sure, I can do that. 

Sometimes it is, in my opinion, easier to maintain the piece if you just refer to the name of a TextField. So I can just check textArea.name == textArea.text. I can easily change the name without having to look at script icons I buried somewhere ...

Also, if you want to create an index of your piece containing the names of the pages, the name property would help. I think there is a name property in flash/actionscript, but it has nothing to do with the names you give in Xerte?!

Peter


On 15.06.2010, at 12:38, Julian Tenney wrote:

> Shouldn't you ne checking textArea.text == theAnswer
> 
> ?
> 
> Not sure how the icon's name will help you there...?
> 
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> 
> Is it possible to get the name of an icon using actionscript? If I try
> debug(myicon.name) it displays an internal name like "TextAreaIcon196"
> but not the given name I see in the tree. 
> I need this to check if a TextArea is filled with the correct answer and
> just wanted to compare name == value, to make it easy. Don't want to use
> IconID for this, cause I can't guarantee that the name is unique in my
> piece. Also alternative ways are welcome!
> 
> Peter
> 
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Peter Huppertz
E-learning and IT Specialist
International Centre for Asset Recovery
Basel Institute on Governance
Phone: +41 61 205 55 18
Fax: +41 61 267 55 19