Get the long ID of the field and work with that. Bob
On Jan 6, 2012, at 5:11 PM, Alan Gayne wrote: > Happy New Year everyone. > > I have working on a special dialog similar the "Field Attributes" dialog that > was part of the old Reports DataPro product. > > In addition to editing and saving the usual field properties, I also want to > be able to edit the script of the field that is referenced in the dialog > stack whilst the dialog stack is open, and can't seem to get this to work. > > Here's what I have been doing: When the "Field Attributes" dialog is called, > the long name (or long id) if the target field is put into a variable that is > then used to populate a field in the dialog stack (fld "Field Identifier"). > > A button on the dialog named "Script…" contains this handler: > > on mouseUp > editFldScript > end mouseUp > > on editFldScript > put fld "Field Identifier" into whichFld > delete word 1 of whichFld > if the environment is development then > edit the script of fld whichFld > end if > end editFldScript > > But this doesn't work. Nor does any of variation of referencing the field in > the main stack that I have been able to come up with. > > This is the error message: > > button "Script…": execution error at line 10 (Chunk: no such object) near "id > 1264 of card id 1002 of stack "CoverHolder RLD"", char 16 > > The dialog stack is currently a substack of the main stack. Not sure if this > makes a difference. > > Presuming that it is actually possible to edit the script of a field in > another stack , it seems likely that the way I am referencing the field is > the culprit. But after trying a lot of different reference variations, I > can't seem to find one that works. > > If not, I could use some help with a workaround that would give me utility of > a script editor whilst in the dialog stack, with the edited script being > automatically stored as a custom property of the dialog stack. > > I have set up fld "Script Holder" in the dialog stack for the purpose of > editing, and which I call with a simple "edit the script of fld 'Script > Holder'", but haven't found any way to automatically set a custom property to > the edited script when script editor is closed and the script is saved. I > could do this after the fact with a button, but that's a far from elegant > solution since it is not automatic. > > This would be pretty easy if there was something like a "scriptChanged", > "scriptSaved or "closeScript" message generated by LiveCode, but I haven't > found anything like that in the dictionary. > > Anyone got any ideas? > > Kind regards, > Alan Gayne > > _______________________________________________ > 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
