Re: Learned my lesson

2020-04-17 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 4/17/20 6:53 PM, Phil Davis via use-livecode wrote: I feel your pain! I switched to using "of me" or "of the owner of me" whenever possible which works very well in many/most cases, but sometimes it just isn't enough. "the mainstack of this stack" always work as well. Almost always. Don't t

Re: Learned my lesson

2020-04-17 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
I’ve also discovered the childControlIDs and the childControlNames. These list the direct children of a group. The controlNames and controlIDs list EVERY object on a card whether grouped or not. The latter becomes especially handy of you preface your object names with some kind of type identif

Re: Learned my lesson

2020-04-17 Thread Phil Davis via use-livecode
I feel your pain! I switched to using "of me" or "of the owner of me" whenever possible which works very well in many/most cases, but sometimes it just isn't enough. Phil Davis On 4/17/20 6:41 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: I just spent 2 hours purging the detestable “this stack” fr