If you have the long ID, then don't refer to it as "field theFieldID" because the long ID already contains the word "field". That may have been the problem. I have tripped over that before. When I use the long ID or any value that contains the object type, I call it something like theObject, so my script looks something like:
get the script of theSourceObject It reads naturally that way. Bob On Jan 7, 2012, at 10:38 AM, Alan Gayne wrote: > on 6 Jan 2012 17:21:42 -0800, Bob Sneidar wrote: > >> Get the long ID of the field and work with that. >> >> Bob > > Bob, > > I was sure that I tried that several times before, and had gotten the same > error. > > But when I tried it again; sure enough it worked! > > I must have previously missed something obvious, but I have no idea what that > might have been. > > In any case, I greatly appreciate the assist. > > Thanks Bob. > > 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
