Is the field a part of a background group? A background group belongs to a stack, not to a card. (I might be wrong but I doubt it ;-) Also try:
send "put the long id of control 76" to card 1 of stack <myStack> get the result What does that produce? Bob On Mar 4, 2011, at 11:04 AM, Peter Brigham MD wrote: > It appears not to trigger openCard. > > FYI, the reason that I needed to do this is that I am trying to do something > with long id's and found what seems to be a bug in how the engine handles > this. If I do this while on the first card of the stack: > > put the long id of control 76 of card 1 of stack <myStack> > > I get something like this: > > field id 1051 of group id 1045 of group id 1004 of card id 2276 of stack > "PDdata" of stack <stackPath> > > But if I move to any other card of the stack, and execute the same command, I > get: > > field id 1051 of group id 1045 of group id 1004 of card id 2675 of stack > "PDdata" of stack <stackPath> > > Note that the card id number in the long id is different, depending on which > card is current -- despite that fact that I asked specifically for "the long > id of control 76 of ***card 1*** " both times. > > I know that occasionally executing commands via msg box give anomalous > results, but that appears not to be a factor here. > > So I need to be on the same card of the stack every time I fetch long id's > for controls of that stack, or else my handlers won't work properly. > > Bug, or what? > > -- Peter _______________________________________________ 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
