Wow! Nice catch! If not a bug, it's certainly an "anomaly". Bob
On Jun 18, 2012, at 3:32 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > I've come across what I think is a bug in what is returned as the long name > of a control. It only happens in fairly obscure circumstances. > > Here's the recipe (LC 5.5). > > Button script: > > on mouseUp > create graphic > create graphic > end mouseUp > > Group the two graphics together and give the group a specific name, eg > "Groupa", instead of it's default name > > Give one of the two graphics a specific name, eg "grc1", instead of its > default name > > Select the named graphic and in the message box, do "put the long name of > selobj()" You will get: > > graphic "grc1" of group "GroupA" of …. > > Now select the other, unnamed graphic and repeat the message box command. > You will get > > graphic id 123 of group 456 of…… > > In other words, if a control is unnamed, the long name returns the ids of > it's owner(s), not their names. > > Some of my scripts are failing because of this because I am looking for > certain group names in a control's long name > > To me, this is a bug but I've been corrected before on what I believe to be > bugs so what do you think? > _______________________________________________ > 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
