Red Lion Crimson 3 tag index questions

I have some questions related to Crimson 3 tags.

1. Lets say I add an action to multiple data boxes so that they all launch the same popup. How can a tag pass its name and/or tag index to the popup in a cstring and/or int tag so that the popup knows which data box was pressed to launch it.

2. How can a tag reference it's own Tag.Name or Tag.index in it's own complex code without a complete database path?

1.You should be able to right click on the object that launches the popup window and click 'Add Action'. From there you can make it a momentary button and add event triggers to a set of flag 'Status' tags. You can then either right a script to process that or use the event viewer to find the information you're looking for.

2.You can reference tags within their own complex code. I try to stay away from doing this though. When I come back to the program for a modification 2 years later I may not remember exactly where all that code went.

I'm not sure I completely understand your question. Are you meaning that you have a tag name Tag.aaa.bbb.ccc and you want to enter Tag.aaa.bbb.somevariable? I suppose that is technically possible, I did a program similar to that when I was in high school but have forgotten exactly how I did it. Today I would make an 'indexing integer' and run a switch statement.

It seems that I should be able to create a cstring tag array, and assign text boxes to each element. When the tags have been associated with the text boxes, it seems like I should be able to access the tag properties using something like Visual Basic does, ie: Me.Name, Me.Label, rather than retyping Page1.Source.Name, etc.

This seems important because I could then write code for an action in the first text box, and do a copy/paste and have things work without hand editing the action code for successive array elements. Perhaps widgets provides something like this?

In that case you would want to use the tag index in a loop function. You can set the Gage name using a function.

My experience so far has been that a tag array has only one tag index. All elements of the array share the same tag index. I'm still trying to understand when the array index variable "i" mentioned I think on on page 76 or 79 of the users guide is available to in code. Can't really find any examples of it's use in a complex code block.