Scripting #1 for newobject creation?

Hi all,

I've been looking through the forum and haven't found an answer yet (though it might be in there);
I'm trying to create a new object within a poly~, the object is an abstraction which requires the index# of the poly~
Doing this :
script newobject newobj @varname bubble @text "ballon $1"
doesn't work, since it creates an object called [ballon $1] and not e.g. [ballon 1]...
Is there a way to resolve this?

grtz and many thanks in advance,
Brecht.