Re: UNIQUE CARD IDs

2011-08-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/5/11 1:27 AM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Sean, I considered that, since I have them set to cantDelete already, but I was too concerned that in cloning them, they would retain that property. Cloned cards are identical in every respect except their ID, so the cantDelete property should stay

Re: UNIQUE CARD IDs

2011-08-04 Thread Shao Sean
Right after the cloning, set the cantDelete property to FALSE.. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listin

Re: UNIQUE CARD IDs

2011-08-04 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Sean, I considered that, since I have them set to cantDelete already, but I was too concerned that in cloning them, they would retain that property. Thanks, Joe Lewis Wilkins Architect On Aug 4, 2011, at 11:18 PM, Shao Sean wrote: > You can always use the cantDelete property for the master f

Re: UNIQUE CARD IDs

2011-08-04 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Thanks Bill, I have too many references and cross references to the names of the various Basic Forms and they must continue to "work" even on the duplicated "copies" so what you suggest would not work. It's a pretty complex application. Some think I'm crazy to even attempt to solve the problems

Re: UNIQUE CARD IDs

2011-08-04 Thread Shao Sean
You can always use the cantDelete property for the master form cards.. http://docs.runrev.com/Property/cantDelete # only run this after setting the cantDelete property to TRUE on the cards you want to keep # every other card will be deleted, so exercise caution.. lock messages -- suppresse

Re: UNIQUE CARD IDs

2011-08-04 Thread Bill Vlahos
Joe, Could you change the name of the new duplicated card and then delete all the cards with the duplicate name? For example the original cards are names Form1, Form2, etc. When you duplicate the Form1 card call the duplicate DupForm1, etc. When you are all done simply loop through the cards a

Re: UNIQUE CARD IDs

2011-08-04 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Bob, Jacque, Thanks. Perhaps you might like to know how I plan to use IDs in my application. One of the Modules (stacks) has 56 basic forms. I record the ID of those forms in a field on the first card of that Module. Subsequently, circumstances on one or more of the other Modules requires that

Re: UNIQUE CARD IDs

2011-08-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/4/11 1:51 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Hi Jaqui, When new cards are created with the clone command, how sure can we be that the new card will be given a unique ID for the current stack? 100% sure. As Bob said, no two objects can ever have the same ID. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |

Re: UNIQUE CARD IDs

2011-08-04 Thread Bob Sneidar
Because if the engine did not make sure of it, things would get really, really hosed in your stack in a hurry. The engine relies on the fact that every object has it's own unique id, and so does not leave it up to us. Someone in a past thread was trying to set the id of the stack so that he coul

UNIQUE CARD IDs

2011-08-04 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Hi Jaqui, When new cards are created with the clone command, how sure can we be that the new card will be given a unique ID for the current stack? TIA, Joe Lewis Wilkins ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visi