[Xerte] Xerte3: getting the name of an icon

[Julian Tenney]

It would be good in a way because then you could have 

myLO.interface.page1.mainImage

in your output panel when tracing stuff. That's a lot more friendly than
the current stuff Flex tells you. So maybe we should set name = iconName
if the name is valid, otherwise ignore it. I'll try that...

-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 15 June 2010 13:32
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Subject: RE: [Xerte] Xerte3: getting the name of an icon

I think I ignore the name property because of the native name property,
which is the internal name given to the objects. I'll give it a whirl
and see what happens if I set the .name to the icon's name: I think one
reason I didn't was because the icon name might not be a valid variable
name...

J

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Peter
Huppertz
Sent: 15 June 2010 12:06
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: Re: [Xerte] Xerte3: getting the name of an icon

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...?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Peter
> Huppertz
> Sent: 15 June 2010 10:01
> To: Xerte discussion list
> Subject: [Xerte] Xerte3: getting the name of an icon
> 
> 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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