David, This may not be any less inelegant that parsing the long id, but how having the Title_Text be an array with its keys being either the card number or the card id?
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 12:30 PM, David Bovill <da...@vaudevillecourt.tv>wrote: > So how can I write a handler to retrun the text of a background group on a > card other than the current card? The only way I know of is to do some ugly > manual parsing of the long id of the target, and so extract the card id and > construct a reference that way - very ugly and in other contexts error > prone. What we need is something equivalent to: > > put the card of the target > put the number of the card of the target > > Any other way of doing this simple task? > 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
