Re: Referencing a control name

2015-07-25 Thread Peter Bogdanoff
Thank you to all that replied to my question--my learned and esteemed colleagues! I got an education, and got the job done! Thanks again, Peter Bogdanoff UCLA On Jul 25, 2015, at 11:49 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 7/25/2015 9:22 AM, Sri wrote: >> The parenthesis placements are key in such

Re: Referencing a control name

2015-07-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/25/2015 9:22 AM, Sri wrote: The parenthesis placements are key in such references as they change the order of command processing. For example: 1. Create a button "Test1" of width 82 (say) 2. Create a field "Field1" of width 168 (say) containing the text: /button "Test1"/ 3. Type into messag

Re: Referencing a control name

2015-07-25 Thread Sri
Wprothero wrote > Sri > It may be bad practice to use the word "field" in the name of a field. > However, i suspect there's more to it.๐Ÿ˜ Hi Bill: This is just a quick example I contrived to prove a point. I never use "field" for a field's name; I give (very) descriptive names to my objects! Rega

Re: Referencing a control name

2015-07-25 Thread Sri
Hi Thierry: It does exactly the same as my example - whether you put it in a button or from the message box. It refers to the field object without the parenthesis, and to the button object with parenthesis. This is due to the fact that the parenthesis is evaluated before the rest, as I had hinted.

Re: Referencing a control name

2015-07-25 Thread Thierry Douez
Hi Sri, Try this: on mouseUp put the width of field "Field1" put the width of (field "Field1") end mouseUp but put this script in a button, not the message box! This should give you the trick. HTH, Thierry Thierry Douez - http://sunny-td

Re: Referencing a control name

2015-07-25 Thread EED-wp Email
Sri It may be bad practice to use the word "field" in the name of a field. However, i suspect there's more to it.๐Ÿ˜ Bill William Prothero http://ed.earthednet.org > On Jul 25, 2015, at 8:22 AM, Sri wrote: > > The parenthesis placements are key in such references as they change the > order of co

Re: Referencing a control name

2015-07-25 Thread Sri
The parenthesis placements are key in such references as they change the order of command processing. For example: 1. Create a button "Test1" of width 82 (say) 2. Create a field "Field1" of width 168 (say) containing the text: /button "Test1"/ 3. Type into message box put the width of field "Fiel

Re: Referencing a control name

2015-07-24 Thread Dick Kriesel
> On Jul 24, 2015, at 5:05 PM, Peter Bogdanoff wrote: > > I want to reference that data like this: > > set the width of to item 2 of > line 1 of field โ€œMyFieldโ€ > > How do I script the stuff inside the <> ? Sometimes that item will be a > field, graphic, etc. > Hi, Peter. You coul

RE: Referencing a control name

2015-07-24 Thread Ralph DiMola
Also "control" is a synonym for field, button, image. Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Peter Bogdanoff Sent: Friday, July 24, 2015 8:06 P

Re: Referencing a control name

2015-07-24 Thread Mark Schonewille
First put the reference into a variable and then Set the width of myVar to x -- Kind regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Http://economy-x-talk.com Share the clipboard of your computer over a local network with Clipboard Link http://clipboardlink.economy-x-talk.com Op 25 jul. 2015 om 02