You may need to post your code…? I see no name properties for any scriptUI controls…

Rick,

This:

var cbx = myDialog.add("checkbox",undefined,"Select Me",{name:"cbx"});

defines a creation property, which is a special kind of property for ScriptUI internal business. You can't tinker with it. To create a custom property, set it separately:

var cbx = myDialog.add("checkbox",undefined,"Select Me",{name:"cbx"});

cbx.label = 'cbx';

Like Jongware, I'm wondering why why you want to loop through labels to find checkboxes which are defined as variables. If you don't want to use variables and want to use labels to find checkboxes, you could do something like this:

var cbx = myDialog.add("checkbox {text: 'Select Me', label: 'cbx'}");

the do

for (var i = 0; myDialog.children.length; i++)

   {

   if (myDialog.children[i].label == 'cbx')

   // . . .

   }

Or maybe you could use the checkbox's text:

for (var i = 0; myDialog.children.length; i++)

   {

   if (myDialog.children[i].text == 'Select Me')

   // . . .

   }

and forget about custom properties altogether.

Peter

I wrote

If you don't want to use variables and want to use labels to find checkboxes, you could do something like this:

var cbx = myDialog.add("checkbox {text: 'Select Me', label: 'cbx'}");

But that should have been

myDialog.add("checkbox {text: 'Select Me', label: 'cbx'}");

The whole point being, of course, that if you cycle through controls there's no need to declare them as variables.

Peter

That works only for creation properties. After all, you use "properties" to set creation properties in this (alternative) format:

var cbx = myDialog.add("checkbox {text: 'Select Me', label: 'xyz', properties: {name: 'cbx'}}");

This works: alert(cbx.properties.name);

This throws an error: alert(cbx.properties.text);

Peter