Guide: Naming GUI Controls

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Originally Posted by Chompy

Personal preference.

Actually, it is completely common sense. If we all had scripts using generic GUI object names like "Window", then everyone's scripts would break everyone else's scripts. At least having the name of the script or something means that the chance of collision is much less likely.

It's actually quite funny how many times I came across this when I was a GST; people's scripts not working because they did the exact same thing and used generic object names, only to later find that the same object name had been used elsewhere and that they were going to conflict.