Re: The group command

2011-02-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
On 2/21/11 7:05 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I guess the only upside here is that so far it appears as though "it" is indeed reliable as long as you use "create", and workarounds are only needed in some cases where you create objects by other means. I stand corrected, at least in part: while look

Re: The group command

2011-02-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
J. Landman Gay wrote: On 2/20/11 10:37 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: dunbarx wrote: > It is not stable. Scott is correct in that we all agreed that the > only reliable workaround was to use the templateGroup to advantage. Sorry, but I missed that meeting: under what circumstances does the local

Re: The group command

2011-02-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/21/11 2:47 AM, Terry Judd wrote: On 21/02/11 5:24 PM, "J. Landman Gay" wrote: When you aren't using "create", the "it" variable has no value: select control 1 and control 2 group put it Produces nothing. But in that case you could use the selectedObject. -- Jacqueline

Re: The group command

2011-02-21 Thread Terry Judd
On 21/02/11 5:24 PM, "J. Landman Gay" wrote: > When you aren't using "create", the "it" variable has no value: > >select control 1 and control 2 >group >put it > > Produces nothing. But in that case you could use the selectedObject. Terry... -- Dr Terry Judd | Senior Lecturer in

Re: The group command

2011-02-20 Thread Peter Haworth
dghorizontals' within the datagrid, not the one created by the group command. I don't know its layer because it is somehow hidden from the Application Browser. As Jacqueline mentioned, the "it" variable doesn't help here since I'm not using the create command. I have w

Re: The group command

2011-02-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/20/11 10:37 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: dunbarx wrote: > It is not stable. Scott is correct in that we all agreed that the > only reliable workaround was to use the templateGroup to advantage. Sorry, but I missed that meeting: under what circumstances does the local var "it" not contain th

Re: The group command

2011-02-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
dunbarx wrote: > It is not stable. Scott is correct in that we all agreed that the > only reliable workaround was to use the templateGroup to advantage. Sorry, but I missed that meeting: under what circumstances does the local var "it" not contain the long id of the newly-created group object

Re: The group command

2011-02-20 Thread dunbarx
: Sun, Feb 20, 2011 9:56 pm Subject: Re: The group command Peter Haworth wrote: > The dictionary says I can refer to the group created by the group > command by using the last keyword as in "last group". Has anyone > used this successfully? As the others here have no

Re: The group command

2011-02-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Haworth wrote: > The dictionary says I can refer to the group created by the group > command by using the last keyword as in "last group". Has anyone > used this successfully? As the others here have noted, it's possible to create a group such that it won't

Re: The group command

2011-02-20 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Peter Haworth wrote: > The dictionary says I can refer to the group created by the group command by > using the last keyword as in "last group". Has anyone used this successfully? > For me, it is returning information about a group with a lower ID than the one >

Re: The group command

2011-02-20 Thread Jim Ault
On Feb 20, 2011, at 4:18 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: The dictionary says I can refer to the group created by the group command by using the last keyword as in "last group". Has anyone used this successfully? For me, it is returning information about a group with a lower ID th

Re: The group command

2011-02-20 Thread Phil Davis
x27;s what I would expect. Phil On 2/20/11 4:18 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: The dictionary says I can refer to the group created by the group command by using the last keyword as in "last group". Has anyone used this successfully? For me, it is returning information about a group

The group command

2011-02-20 Thread Peter Haworth
The dictionary says I can refer to the group created by the group command by using the last keyword as in "last group". Has anyone used this successfully? For me, it is returning information about a group with a lower ID than the one created by the group command. Pe