PS to my post. You can, of course, look for the datagrid name in the long name of the control as Ian suggested. In my case, I had an interest in gathering information about some of the controls so I had to be a bit more granular than that. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Pete <p...@mollysrevenge.com> wrote: > Hi Glen, > I haven't found a way to exclude them from being returned by any of the > standard methods of looping through the controls in a script but I have > managed to identify which controls are part of the datagrid. > > If it helps, you can see the structure of a datagrid by selecting it, then > in the message box, type: > > set the selectgroupedcontrols of selobj() to true > > Then select the card that the datagrid is on in the Application browser > (if it's already selected, you'll probably have to refresh the right pane > by right-clicking and selecting refresh. > > Your datagrid won't work until you restore it to normal condition by "set > the selectgroupedcontrols of selobj() to false" > > You'll see that many (but not all) of the datagrid controls have names > that begin with "dg" so you can start by excluding those. After that, you > have to deal with any columns that you have customised to contain controls > and the column headings since they won't have names that begin with "dg" > (unless you force yourself to do that). I do that by checking if either > "dgList" or "dgHeader" is in the long name of the control. So far that has > worked reliably for me. > > Hope that helps. > > > Pete > Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> > > > > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Glen Bojsza <gboj...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have a stack with a single card and several objects that I have placed >> on >> it ... including a datagrid. >> >> In the application browser it shows 58 controls for the card (all the ones >> I expected). >> >> From script >> >> put the number of controls of card 1 of this stack >> >> I get 202 controls (which I would guess has to do with the datagrid). >> >> Is it possible via script to get the same controls that the Application >> browser reports? >> >> thanks >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
