Copy and rename a button - which takes precedence?

[M-A Kuttner]

Hi all. I've got a button that I want to copy via a script and then rename the copy to a new button name. The script is essentially this:

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copy button ButtonName
paste
set the name of button ButtonName to "ButtonName1"

My question is; after I've copied and pasted the button, how does LC decide which of the buttons I will be renaming. Does it prioritize by earliest ID, latest ID, highest layer number, or something else? When I rename button ButtonName, am I renaming the original or the copy?

Thanks!
M-A

[mtalluto]

Hi M-A

You can use 'it' to identify the reference to the pasted control.

Here is some example code:

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on mouseUp
     copy button "marko"
     paste
     set the name of it to "polo"
end mouseUp

[jmburnod]

Hi,

You may use clone command.
Something like that.

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on cloneOneBtn pTargetName, pNewName
   clone btn pTargetName
   set the name of last btn to pNewName
end cloneOneBtn

Best regards
Jean-Marc

[M-A Kuttner]

Many thanks, Mark and Jean-Marc!

[dunbarx]

M-A.

Know that whenever you create any new control, however you do that, it can be accessed via the "last" keyword, before you know anything else about it. But just as the local variable "it" can change almost at once, depending on what is going on in a handler, it is a good idea to explicitly set certain important properties, like the name, of that last control.

Know also "last" does not seem to work with groups.

Craig

[Klaus]

Hi friends,

we can do this:

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on cloneOneBtn pTargetName, pNewName
   clone btn pTargetName AS pNewName
end cloneOneBtn

Best

Klaus

[jmburnod]

Saperlipopette !!
Klaus made it shorter

[Klaus]

That's pure lazyness!

[M-A Kuttner]

Wow, great! Many thanks guys!

[stam]

That's pure lazyness!

That's to be applauded

[dunbarx]

Spelling "laziness" with a "Y" is not lazy, it is extra work for little gain.

Craig

[Klaus]

I'm a 10 finger typer, so that does not matter to me...

[Klaus]

Or was that a joke that (again) I didn't get?

[dunbarx]

Klaus.

The extra work I mentioned derives from the longer distance one has to move one's finger in order to access the "Y" as opposed to the "I".

This is wasted energy; it requires the body to burn more calories since it takes extra work to move ones fingers that extra distance. It takes energy to displace considerable additional air, and I will not even go into the extra time required for that additional finger travel, including the return travel time, which in turn requires the computer itself to be powered on longer than necessary.

No wonder the glaciers are disappearing.

Craig

[Klaus]

AHA!

OK, that joke may not work so well with german keyboards, where the Y is at another place,
right above the left CMD and ALT key.