That's basically what I'm doing, just checking there wasn't some other property or perhaps a syntax like "the groupNames of group "xyz", but seems not.
Pete Haworth On Feb 26, 2011, at 12:11 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > I put this in a button and it seemed to do pretty well. Is there any reason > to NOT do this with try/catch and toss the error? > > *on mouseUp* > * put 1 into i* > * repeat until tDone* > * wait 100 milliseconds with messages* > * try * > * put the long id of group i & return after tGroups* > * add 1 to i* > * catch tErr* > *-- ignore tErr* > * put true into tDone* > * end try* > * end repeat* > * put tGroups* > *end mouseUp* > > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 12:33 PM, J. Landman Gay > <jac...@hyperactivesw.com>wrote: > >> On 2/25/11 8:50 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: >> >>> The groupnames and groupids properties of a card only report the top >>> level groups. Other than iterating through all the controls on a >>> card, is there a way to get a list of the gorup names and/or IDs that >>> are in the top level groups? >>> >> >> I don't think so. The closest I could get was: >> >> put the number of groups of group 1 >> >> That gives a number, and you could iterate through those to get names. >> >> -- >> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com >> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/listinfo/use-livecode >> > _______________________________________________ > 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/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ 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/listinfo/use-livecode
