Renaming objects breaks links?

[jimwillsher]

Within AMS I have some objects based on a template - objects such as Note Exit, Text Exit, Note Install, Text Install etc. I have the Note objects configured to be hidden to start, and they are then enabled via mouseover events.

If I rename the objects (e.g. Note Exit becomes Note Close), the Page Open events lose the links and I have to manually recreate them.

Is this just something I'm doing wrong?

Many thanks.

[Lorne]

Nope. If you change the name of an object, you will need to refer to that new name whenever you want to perform an action on that object...just like you noted.

[jimwillsher]

That's a shame. AMS obviously keeps a note of all the objects on a page, so it's a shame that it links them by name rather than by an object ID.

Perhaps for version 4?....

[Lorne]

You know, that might be a friendlier way to do it. I'll submit it to the dev team.

Incidentally, in 4 you could use a design-time constant for the names in your template instead, and then change those constants in your Project Settings.