Re: [Pythoncard-users] possible to script component names?

On Dec 18, 2006, at 8:13 AM, Alec Bennett wrote:

> For example, instead of saying something like:
>
> self.components.button4.file = "some_picture.jpg"
>
> I'd like to be able to do something like:
>
> button_number = 4
> button = 'self.components.button" + `button_number` + ".file =
> "some_picture.jpg"'
>
> Currently I'm burying everything in way too many if statements, which
> is always a sign I'm doing things sloppily. If I could write a
> function that, for example, redraws only a specific button, my code
> would get much neater. But without being able to script or concatenate
> the component name, I can't think of a way to do that.
>
> Is such a thing possible? Or is there some clever way to achieve  
> the same thing?

	You could do this with Python's exec statement. Construct the text  
of the command, and then use exec to execute it.

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