Treating a variable as an object name inside a calculator expression

[Filip]

Hello

I am trying to use a Global (or active, doesn't matter) Value to determine which object is called in an expression. Here is an example of what I want to do :

I have 9 objects named "1" to "9". This is an example of what I want to do :

GetRed(RGBCoef("anchor"))

Anchor is the value which can range from 1 to 9, given the right conditions. Now, I know that this expression will ask the application to search for an object named "anchor", which doesn't exist, so I tried a few silly combinations like Str$(Val(anchor)) and even desperately tried Str$("""+(Val(anchor))+""") but you can guess the result.

What I want to do here is use the value of this "anchor" value and make the calculator target the object with this name and extract few values from it.


Thank you

[schrodinger]

Unfortunately you can't,
but you can work around this in many ways,
I'm going to suggest two

prerequisite for both versions:
apply same qualifier to all of your objects


longer version

(on triggering condition)
>>> start loop for each (qualifier)

on each one of "qualifier"
+ (compare two general values) OName$( "Group.Good" ) = anchor
>>> set value to GetRed(RGBCoef("qualifier"))

NOTE: make sure you have latest builds, OName$ function has been added very recently


shorter version

prerequisite:
enter your objects name in alt string "my_name" of your objects

(on triggering condition)
+ My_name( "Group.Good" ) = anchor
>>> set value to GetRed(RGBCoef("qualifier"))

NOTE: make sure you use unique names for each object