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I am intrigued. Craig -----Original Message----- From: Bob Sneidar <b...@twft.com> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> Sent: Mon, Aug 20, 2012 5:53 pm Subject: Re: The Owner of a background group Behave as background on? Bob On Aug 20, 2012, at 1:56 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > Hi Craig, > Interesting, I wonder what's different in my situation. It's not my stack > that exhibits this behavior so hard to dissect it. Maybe it's some other > setting of the group that is causing the behavior. > > I used the message box to check this out: > > put the long ID of the owner of GroupA of Card2 of stack xyz > > That returned a long ID which included the ID of Card1, not Card2. Same > thing if I asked for the owner of a control within GroupA > > Very weird. > > OSX 1.7, LC 5.5.1 > > Pete > lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> > > > > On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 1:38 PM, <dunb...@aol.com> wrote: > >> Peter. >> >> >> I don't see this. >> >> >> >> I made a card and a background group, I made a background field that, on >> opencard, would show the owner of the group. I made a few new cards. >> Navigating, the owner of the group is the current card, not the first card >> where all the authoring took place. Using the "place" command works the >> same as "command-N" in placing the group onto downstream cards. >> >> >> >> Mac OS10.5, LC 5.5 >> >> >> Craig Newman >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Peter Haworth <p...@lcsql.com> >> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> >> Sent: Mon, Aug 20, 2012 4:19 pm >> Subject: The Owner of a background group >> >> >> It appears that requesting the owner of a background group does not always >> return the card on which the group exists. I think it returns the card on >> which the group was initially placed. >> >> For example, if groupA is a background group initially placed on Card1, >> then placed on card2 and I ask for the owner of groupA on Card2, I get >> Card1. >> >> Given that I'm not misunderstanding this, how can I discover which card a >> specific instance of a background group is on? >> >> Pete >> lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 _______________________________________________ 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
