First of all, thanks to all of you who offered advice on this problem, with special thanks to Craig Newman for definitively pointing out that "The "last" keyword is not stable when referring to groups." - apparently a LC bug
After doing a little exploring through the dictionary for a workaround, I discarded the "copy" and "create" options (both not dependable, but for different reasons), but found that the "clone" command works just fine, as it puts the long id of the newly created group into the "it" variable, after which it was a piece of cake to rename and reposition the new group. No "newGroup" handler required this time around, but some sort of "newObject" handler might be helpful under other circumstances. Here's the working code, which is quite straightforward, AND WORKS! on addFldDoublet theGroup put the number of grps in grp theGroup into lastDoublet put the short name of grp lastDoublet of grp theGroup into lastName put the left of grp lastName into newLeft put (the bottom of grp lastName -6) into newTop put lastName into nextName set itemDelimiter to "_" add 10 to last item of nextName set itemDelimiter to "," clone grp lastName set the name of it to nextName -- The clone command places the long id property of the newly created object in the it variable. set the left of grp nextName to newLeft set the top of grp nextName to newTop end addFldDoublet Knowing that the "last" keyword was the problem did the trick, and I'm not likely to waste time in the future trying to directly reference a "last" object until I'm sure the bug has been fixed. But the truth is that it was the combined input of all who offered their advice that put me on the correct track to solving this one, and I am grateful for kind assistance. 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
