Thanks. I guess the way I was doing it was mimicking how I would do it manually in the IDE but your way sounds neater so I'll give it a whirl.
Pete Haworth On Mar 13, 2011, at 9:50 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 3/13/11 11:43 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: >> On 3/13/11 7:45 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: >>> I know that was suggested and I can't remember why it didn't work for >>> me - I think it may have been because the group may not exist. Or >>> maybe it's because I'm copying the control into the group, not >>> creating it? >> >> For copying, use this: >> >> copy button "myButton" to grp "mygroup" of cd "thatCard" > > Oops, this will fail if you aren't on that card. I should have said: > > copy button "myButton" of cd "thatCard" to grp "mygroup" of cd "thatCard" > > But there's a shorter way using the "currentCard" syntax. That's sort of like > defaultstack, only for cards. So you could set that first, do the work, then > set it back: > > put the number of this cd into tOrigCard > set the currentcard of this stack to "thatCard" > copy btn "myButton" to grp "mygroup" > ... anything else you need to do there > set the currentcard of this stack to tOrigCard > > So all the work gets done without the user ever changing cards. > >> >> If you no longer want the original, you'd need to delete it after that: >> >> delete button "myButton" of cd "thatCard" >> >> If the group doesn't exist then you'd need to create one first. You can >> do that remotely too: >> >> create grp "new group" >> place grp "new group" onto cd "thatCard" >> remove grp "new group" from this cd >> > > > -- > 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
