Thanks Bjornke. I'm nervous about putting a group into and out of edit mode by script having had some bad experiences with it in the past. Seems like it puts the stack into a weird and wonderful state where the controls outside of the edited group no longer exist and any reference to a control that includes the group name fails. Any script runtime errors stand a chance of corrupting the stack.
However, your suggestion to lock the screen sounds like it would take care of my concerns and I'd only be in group edit mode for a few milliseconds so I'll give this a whirl. It is less code than the other solutions and I like that. Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> Home of lcStackBrowser <http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html> and SQLiteAdmin <http://www.lcsql.com/sqliteadmin.html> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 6:06 AM, Björnke von Gierke <b...@mac.com> wrote: > You can also use the "start / stop editing" command while locking the > screen. Basic testing shows it that just messing with > relayerGroupedControls doesn't help... Could be nice if that'd be possible. > Until then, the following works: > > on mouseUp > lock screen > start editing group 1 > group button 1 and button 2 > stop editing > end mouseUp > > On 27.02.2014, at 00:58, Peter Haworth <p...@lcsql.com> wrote: > > > I have a need to group controls within an existing group into a subgroup > by > > script, but I get a runtime error when trying to do that - in 6.5.2 the > > message is "Object cannot be grouped". > > > > Any ideas on how to do that? The only way I can think of is to ungroup > the > > main group, group the selected controls to form the subgroup, then group > > the subgroup and the rest of the controls to reinstate the main group, > but > > that's pretty scary! > > > > > > Pete > > lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> > > Home of lcStackBrowser <http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html> and > > SQLiteAdmin <http://www.lcsql.com/sqliteadmin.html> > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 an alternative Dictionary viewer: > http://bjoernke.com/bvgdocu/ > > Chat with other RunRev developers: > http://bjoernke.com/chatrev/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
