What are you trying to accomplish? I've always used layers to move things into and out of groups.
gc On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 5:47 PM, Peter Haworth <p...@lcsql.com> wrote: > What seems to work in a script is to start editing each owning group until > you reach the one containing the group to be ungrouped, ungroup it, then > stop editing its owning group. > > I'm nervous though. I've found that the world of editbackground mode is a > weird and wonderful place. No matter how many cards are in the stack being > edited, the cardIDs returns only the card that is being edited. And the > number of controls on the card is the number in the group being edited not > the number on the card. And the long id of any control in the group before > you entered this strange place isn't valid because it's not a member of the > group at that point. > > Pete > lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> > > > On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Peter Haworth <p...@lcsql.com> wrote: > > > Unless I'm missing something, it looks like the ungroup command doesn't > > work on nested group, i.e. one that is owned by another group. The > ungroup > > command doesn't return an error either. > > > > It feels like the only way to do this is to ungroup all the owning groups > > first but that seems fraught with dangers of losing the group structures. > > Is there a better way to do it. By Script I mean. > > > > Thanks, > > > > 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
