The behavior is consistent with all cards or controls that don't have a name. The "name" is the
ID in that case. The best way around it is to:
put the long id of <the object or card> into tID
That way you can refer to tID without worrying whether there's a literal name
or not. So:
put the long ID of the currentCard into tID
set the myProperty of tID to tValue
On 10/24/23 12:00 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote:
I think I found a oddity in the "currentCard" property.
The documentation states that the currentCard property return the short name of the current
card of a stack:
for example: put the currentCard of stack "Untitled 1" into tCardName
You can then execute code such as: set the myProperty of cd tCardName of stack "Untitled 1" to
tValue
However, if the card does not have a name set, then current card returns "card id <idnumber>",
example: card id 1002 and the above 2 lines of code return a runtime error of 'can't find card'
put the currentCard of stack "Untitled 1" into tCardName
set the myProperty of cd tCardName of stack "Untitled 1" to tValue
WORKS for cards with a name
FAILS for cards without a name (where currentCard returns 'card id <number')
I think currentCard should just return 'id 1002' rather than 'card id 1002' if
a card has no name.
Trying to execute: set the myProperty of cd tCardName of stack "Untitled 1" to tValue WHEN
tCardName contain 'card id 1002' produces a run time error
But trying to execute: set the myProperty of cd id 1002 of stack "Untitled 1"
to tValue works.
Oddly, set the myProperty of cd tCardName of stack "Untitled 1" to tValue FAILS if tCardName
contains "id 10001" (and yes that card with that ID exists)
Oddly again, set the myProperty of the currentCard of stack "Untitled 1" to tValue DOES WORK
whether they have a name or not
But again, breaking that example above (set the myProperty of the currentCard of stack
"Untitled 1" to tValue) into 2 lines:
put the currentCard of stack "Untitled 1" into tCardName
set the myProperty of cd tCardName of stack "Untitled 1" to tValue
FAILS if the card has no name.
Something just seems off here?
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