How do I get the name of a component?

[stefano.menci]

I was expecting to get the name of each component on the form together with the text, instead the text works as expected, but the name always return "r".

for c in form.get_components():
  print '%s %s %s %s' % (type(c).__name__, c, c.text, c.name)

Output:

Label <anvil.Label object> Downloaded to FPC: r
TextBox <anvil.TextBox object>  r

[david.wylie]

Hi - worth reading this thread (and the ones @meredydd & @daviesian link to). I’ve not heard anything to suggest the situation has changed.

Getting the "name" of a component

Do I have access to the “name” attribute of (for example) a Label? I need to walk through the contents of a gridpanel and fetch the text value of a particular label. The best way (I thought) to identify the label would be through its name as there’s no other place that I can see to store an arbitrary value on a component (which is different to the text value). Note the labels are being created in code, not in the designer. EDIT - if I print `mylabel.name` it prints `klass` looking at thi…

In summary there is a Skulpt bug requiring a work around, both are described in the link (and sub-links) above.

[Zaro]

Hey @stefano.menci,

Here’s a solution if you still have a use case for it:

Get the components names of a form

Apparently, there’s not a straightforward way of getting the names of a form’s components. Here is a function that does this should anyone need it: def get_component_names(form): component_names = [] # get the form's components (python objects) components = form.get_components() for attr_name in dir(form): attr = getattr(form, attr_name) # check if the attribute is one ofthe form's components if attr in components: component_names.append(attr_name) return compone…