How to get button or label name as text format?

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Hello. It is my first post and first question.

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It looks like IF statement does not work. Only blocks after ELSE works.
I have another simple version that works but without IF and LOOPS statements.
I just wanted to do the same using DICTIONARY and it does not work.
Can you help a little?

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You cannot treat a component as text. (as in contains text (get key))
You could however setup a dictionary with as key the name of the component (as text) and as value a list with two elements, the component and a number (FontSize)
Then in the for each… loop use the elements of the list to set the FontSize

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And in this case I would setup different dictionaries for buttons and labels so that you could get rid of the IF structure

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Also see here:

MIT have tested a solution to provide the button component name, it may be coming in a future update, we will have to wait and see what the priorities are.

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Thank you for your answers. I will try first sugested solution to have one dictionary and look how it will work.

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You could also global init separate lists of labels and buttons, and determine component type using the is in list block.
Sample project:

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Thank you. Also will try this.