Thanks Mike, interesting what happens if you just click in and out of the name box. Unfortunately, I don't have control over the objects that cause this behavior - they are part of the datagrid structure.
I think I will report it as a bug. Kind of a pain to work around it though. I think I will have to have a repeat loop that gets the name of the owner, then the owner of the owner, etc, until I get to a group that is a datagrid or the card. Easy enough to script, just a hassle to have to do it for this special case. Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 4:01 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnm...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you go into the inspector after creating the 2 grcs the name is set to > the id. I think this is a behavior that occurs when there is no valid name > set for the grc, but the name of the grc isn't actually whats shown in the > inspector. If you click in the box, don't change the name, click out of the > box, things start to work. (and it would make sense. No name available, so > it defaults to showing the id of things instead) > > Still think its a bug though, shouldn't there be a valid default name that > is set when using 'create grc' ? > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Bob Sneidar <b...@twft.com> wrote: > > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
