Hi,
"card" is part of the name, but not of the short name. A correct card
reference is
card "The short name"
This would be the complete name of the card and you can use it directly
in a script:
go card "The short name"
put (there is a card "The short name")
There are a few things I would not do:
1) starting card names with numbers
2) starting card names with spaces
3) including any special characters such as "/" or "#" or non-printable
characters in card names
4) starting the short name of a card with "card"
References such as
go card "1"
go cd "1 "
go card "card 1 bla"
would be either incorrect or a source of confusion.
Depending on which version you're using, the combobox might be returning
unicode. I don't really expect his, but it is easy to check, using the
lenght function:
on menuPick theItem
put len(theItem)
end menuPick
and see if the number is what you expect.
Did you make the list of cards in the combobox manually? Perhaps you can
use this syntax:
put the cardNames of this stack into btn "Your Combobox"
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On 8/21/2014 13:02, revolut...@duncansoftware.on-rev.com wrote:
On 8/20/2014, 8:08 PM, revolut...@duncansoftware.on-rev.com wrote:
Why doesn't this code work?
on menuPick pItemName
go card pItemName
end menuPick
where the comboBox has a list of card names.
Set a breakpoint at the "go" line and when it pauses, see what's in
pItemName and whether there's a card with that name. You can also
temporarily add "answer the result" after the "go" statement; maybe
there's a silent error happening.
Thanks for everyone's suggestions but...
I tried setting a breakpoint and pItemName contains the name of a card.
However when I tried "answer the result" the response is
"No such card".
When I use the message box "Put the name of card 1" it reports
card " 1 External Dorsal ~"
which seems to be saying that "card" is part of the name.
I tried various methods of adding card to the pItemName such as
put "card" && quote & pItemName & quote into pitemName
go pItemName
or
go card card pItemName
but these also failed and reported "No such card."
The spaces and tilde in the card name is not the problem.
There are 75+ cards and many do not have extra spaces and tildes.
If I just type into the message box
go card " 1 External Dorsal ~" it goes to the card.
MacBook Pro OSX 10.6.8 and any version of Livecode that I have tried 6.0 6.52
6.60.
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