morphic wrote:
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> ok, got it. thanks for the many ways. grabbing the widget and dropping it on the rhs of an assignment seems most direct. my problem was that (apparently) inspecting a widget doesn't yield a straightforward specification of how to refer to it.

Not sure if you already know this, but in an inspector (or explorer), you can use "self" in the lower pane of the inspector to refer the inspected object and send messages to it.  Definitely a good thing to know about inspectors. :)

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