Text variable within a component?

[artmusicstudio]

hi,
is there a ruby-variable, which can show

the NAME OF THE COMPONENT-INSTANCE

even when the text (=variable) is placed within the component definition?

i would like to achieve, that the name of the instance (unique, while created by my ruby, is displayed thru my ruby-script,
but the text always is moved with the component by the user (it "sricks" to it),

but i don't want to create a group 'around' them.

is there any solution for that idea?
thanx
stan

[Dan Rathbun]

Both the definetion and the instance have their own name() and name=() methods.
But these attributes are displayed in the EntityInfo dialog. (They are not text objects.)

You could wrap the instance and a text object within a unique group. Then they would move together.

[artmusicstudio]

hi dan,
yes, i understand.
i solved the problem with the following solution:

the component-related text is placed outside
and with every calculation per ruby it is selectively deleted and placed with new parameters
at the new components position.

seems to work well.

stan