Use of variables for object definition (not name)

[yosik]

Is it possible to do that?
I"ll explain:
I have one image (Image1) and one Button (Button1) on the page.
Based on a given event, I want to influence one object or the other with something like that:

objectdef = "Image"

objectdef.setpos (......)

Thanks
Yossi

[TJ_Tigger]

Yes you can do that. Since the SetPos actions are the same from one object to another you can determine what type of object you are dealing with, set a variable to be that object type and then execute the SetPos Action.

Object = nil;
if ObjectType == "OBJECT_IMAGE" then
    Object = Image;  --no quotes around the word image
    --What this does is set the Object variable to the Image table which 
    --defines all of the Image actions.  Cool huh
elseif ObjectType == "OBJECT_BUTTON" then
    Object = Button;
end
if Object then
    Object.SetPos(sName, x, y)
end

[TJ_Tigger]

Here is a larger chunk of code showing the above

local tblObjects = Page.EnumerateObjects()
local Object = nil;
	
--if there are objects on the page
if tblObjects then
	for index, CurrentObject in tblObjects do
		--check for object type, 
		if Page.GetObjectType(CurrentObject) == OBJECT_FLASH then
			Object = Flash;
		elseif Page.GetObjectType(CurrentObject) == OBJECT_INPUT then
			Object = Input;
		elseif Page.GetObjectType(CurrentObject) == OBJECT_VIDEO then
			Object = Video;
		elseif Page.GetObjectType(CurrentObject) == OBJECT_WEB then
			Object = Web;
		end
	
		if Object then
			tblPos = Object.GetPos(CurrentObject)
			tblSize = Object.GetSize(CurrentObject)
			Object.SetEnabled(CurrentObject, false)
			Object.SetEnabled(CurrentObject, true)
		end
	end
end

[Eagle]

tks for the code TJ ..

[Desmond]

I think adam's sample resize project makes use of this technique.

[yosik]

GREAT TJ. Thanks a bunch for that

Yossi