name to id

[sashapont]

I hate many dynamically generated object with automatic id and names like name="myname"..{I}
Are there any way to get id, for example, for object with name myname100?

[airsoftsoftwair]

You mean you want to look up a variable value using a string? That is possible using the _G symbol, e.g.

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name$ = "myname100"
v = _G[name$]
DebugPrint(v)

[sashapont]

not work for buttons

[airsoftsoftwair]

Post your code then... (but make it very short!)

[sashapont]

MakeButton(Nil, #LAYERBUTTON, "button"..t.."box", True, False,{OnMouseDown = p_MyFunc, name="mybutton"})

How I can get id of this button?

[airsoftsoftwair]

Like so:

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buttonid = MakeButton(Nil, #LAYERBUTTON, "button"..t.."box", True, False,{OnMouseDown = p_MyFunc, name="mybutton"})

[sashapont]

I try it and then write
SystemRequest("Attention",ToString(buttonid), "OK",#REQICON_WARNING)

And it doesn't show correct id. What I am doing wrong?

[airsoftsoftwair]

Ok, you need a helper table to achieve what you want, like this:

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idtable = {}
buttonid = MakeButton(Nil, #LAYERBUTTON, "button"..t.."box", True, False,{OnMouseDown = p_MyFunc, name="mybutton"})
idtable[buttonid] = "buttonid"
DebugPrint(idtable[buttonid])