Hi Steve,<div><br></div><div>I don&#39;t think this is a bug. If I understood correctly, the name used to reference an object in a script is not supposed to be the same as the one displayed on the screen but a unique name that identifies only this object in the World. An object&#39;s external name can change at any time but the references to this object must remain consistent in all scripts.</div>

<div><br></div><div>I&#39;m not sure what you&#39;re trying to do, but you can get an object&#39;s displayed name by sending #externalName to the object. See the attached project for an example.</div><div><br></div><div>
Cheers,</div>
<div>Richo</div><div><br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:51 AM, Steve Thomas <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:sthomas1@gosargon.com">sthomas1@gosargon.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

See: <a href="http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-903" target="_blank">http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-903</a><div><br></div><div>If you change the name of an object, the name used to reference it in a script (via show code textually) does not change.</div>


<div>So how do I reference the name of the player (as displayed on the screen) in a script?</div><div><br></div><div><div>script4</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">	</span>| t1 t2 p1 selector |</div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">	</span>p1 := Text3.</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">	</span>t1 := Command1 getCharacters.</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">	</span>t2 := 5.</div>
<div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">	</span>selector := (t1 , &#39;:&#39;) asSymbol.</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">	</span>p1 perform: selector with: t2</div></div><div>
<br></div><div>In this above example I had a Text object where the screen showed its name (on page 2) as Text3, but when I used its characters tile in another Text object&#39;s script, it used the name Text4 in the text version of that script?</div>


<div><br></div><div>Stephen</div>
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