How do I get the name of a component?

[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.