Object's Child Or Parent?

You mean directly in the application. You need to use Parent Puzzle.

GLiFTeK wrote:

right.. but more precisely i’m looking to return the name of a certain child of an object.
ie: if foo does something, then give a variable’s value the name of it’s (only) child.

Unfortunally there’s no way to do it using Puzzles.

@gliftek, I often need this sort of helper function in my applications. When I do need this sort of solution, I use the technique that Yuri has described. I write JS code, wrap it in a function, and call that function from my puzzles. This technique is the #2 method from the documentation. https://www.soft8soft.com/docs/manual/en/introduction/Using-JavaScript.html#Method_2_Versatile

However, I think the example from the documentation can be improved. We have a newer JS puzzle that takes parameters accepts a return value from a JS helper function. Here is Yuri’s code using this technique:

function prepareExternalInterface(app) {
	
    app.ExternalInterface.getFirstChild = function(parentObjectName) {
		var object = app.scene.getObjectByName(parentObjectName);
		return object.children[0].name;
    }
	
}