Thanks for the explanation Scott. I don't think this had anything to do with
the original problem I had but I have to admit I was under the impression that
control IDs were unique within a stack file, not within each (sub)stack within
a stack file.
Pete Haworth
On Mar 25, 2011, at 4:30 PM, Sco
A stack file and a stack are not the same thing.
There could be duplicate short id's, but not duplicate long id's.
You need to be careful about making copies of stacks using 'Save As'
and then defining them as substacks of the same main stack. This is a
legal process, but LC does not scan o
Peter:
The expression "same stack" is key here. Substacks of a main stack are not
the same stack. This is easy to test: create a new stack, add some
substacks to it. If you drag a button into each of the substacks, the ID of
each button should be 1004, and control ID numbering will start from
While looking into this further, I have discovered what I think is another
anomaly. I have two substacks of the same main stack with one card in each
one. Each card has one group on it - the two groups have the same short ID.
The dictionary says that IDs "are guaranteed to be unique within
