How to make script find a brick by its name

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Daenth:

--- Quote from: Axolotl on May 28, 2012, 12:31:34 PM ---This will work.

This is the easy way.

--- Code: ---function findBrickByName(%name)
{
   eval("%currentbrick = \"_\" @ %name;");
   if(isObject(%currentBrick) && %currentBrick.getClassName() $= "fxDTSBrick")
   {
   return %currentbrick.getID();
   }
   else
   {
   return 0;
   }
}

--- End code ---
Keep in mind that this only looks for single named bricks so I'd appreciate it if somebody did it with Port's way.

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Eval is not necessary there nor do you ever want to use it where you don't have to. If you're using this code, switch it to this.

--- Code: ---function findBrickByName(%name)
{
   %brick = ("_" @ %name).getID();
   if(isObject(%brick) && %brick.getClassName() $= "fxDTSBrick")
   return %brick;
   else
   return 0;
}

--- End code ---
Exact same thing without eval. It will return the most recently placed brick named %name.

--- Quote from: Port on May 28, 2012, 12:28:32 PM ---The proper way is looking at the variables on a brick group in order to see all bricks named that (and also to see it for a specific person).

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I could see looping through every brick becoming a problem after a few thousand bricks.

Greek2me:

--- Quote from: Daenth on May 28, 2012, 01:21:15 PM ---I could see looping through every brick becoming a problem after a few thousand bricks.

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No, there are variables in the brickgroup that list the named bricks.

Wordy:

--- Quote from: Greek2me on May 28, 2012, 01:27:51 PM ---No, there are variables in the brickgroup that list the named bricks.

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how would you be able to find that out

Port:

--- Quote from: Wordy on May 29, 2012, 01:21:11 PM ---|
how would you be able to find that out

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--- Quote from: Port on May 28, 2012, 06:42:41 AM ---Try invoking the dump() member function of a brick group and look at the output.

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