Guide: Naming GUI Controls

[Chompy]

Personal preference.

[xXziroXx]

Originally Posted by Chompy

Personal preference.

I disagree, more like coding standard.

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by fowlplay4

I normally name the GuiWindowCtrl's or GuiBitmapBorderCtrl's after the main title for it.

I.e: JailInformation instead of JailInformation_Window

But everything below that uses your naming convention.

I.e Close button: JailInformation_Close

The reason I would add the _Window is so I can, for example, close all those windows.

PHP Code:

for (temp.control : GraalControl.controls) {
  if (control.name.starts("JailInformation_")) {
    control.destroy();
  }
} 


without picking up JailInformation2_Window or whatever for a completely different window.

I see what you mean, though.

Originally Posted by Chompy

Personal preference.

It's not really personal preference. If you name all your windows "Window", you're going to have problems.

[Skyld]

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.

[LoneAngelIbesu]

Originally Posted by Chompy

Personal preference.

I believe Chompy is referring to this:

Originally Posted by fowlplay4

I normally name the GuiWindowCtrl's or GuiBitmapBorderCtrl's after the main title for it.

I.e: JailInformation instead of JailInformation_Window

But everything below that uses your naming convention.

I.e Close button: JailInformation_Close

... not to using descriptive names.

[Chompy]

Originally Posted by LoneAngelIbesu

I believe Chompy is referring to this:


... not to using descriptive names.

Indeed, forgot to quote Jerret. D:
Sorry.