[Pythoncard-users] possible to script component names?

[Alec B. <wry...@gm...>]

This is a hard one to explain, but here goes. I'd like to be able to
script component names in my PythonCard layout.

For example, instead of saying something like:

self.components.button4.file = "some_picture.jpg"

I'd like to be able to do something like:

button_number = 4
button = 'self.components.button" + `button_number` + ".file =
"some_picture.jpg"'

Currently I'm burying everything in way too many if statements, which
is always a sign I'm doing things sloppily. If I could write a
function that, for example, redraws only a specific button, my code
would get much neater. But without being able to script or concatenate
the component name, I can't think of a way to do that.

Is such a thing possible? Or is there some clever way to achieve the same thing?